Baseball Players of All Ages for Hitting – Pitching Instruction contact
Coach Bobby Youngblood
Email: hardballelite4@gmail.com
Phone: (864) 420-5465
“One of the Southeast’s most recognizable baseball men.”
| · Managing partner of South Carolina’s first indoor training center |
| · Has taught over 70,000 hitting and pitching lessons |
| · Associate Scout |
| · Coached two sports collegiately (baseball, basketball) |
| · Member of the Easley Baseball Hall of Fame |
| · Provided Select travel teams for twelve years |
| · Member of the South Carolina District One coaching staff which has won four World Championships and a US title |
| · Leader in establishing Pro-Day events for Up-State players on college campuses |
Bobby’s Hitting Program
Load
Soft
Straight Back
Soft Stride
Light
Soft
Short
Quiet
Pivot
Balls of feet
Shoestrings to ball
Heel to sky
Quick pop
Barrel to and Through
Direct Path
Follow Through
Weight shift Rotational Linear Positional Hybrid
6 – 9 years old 100 swings per day
10 – 12 years old 200 swings per day
13 – 15 years old 300 swings per day
16 years – up 500 swings per day
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Drills
Standard tee
Standard tee w/adjustments
Quick Hands
High Tee
Cross over
Jeter (Happy Gilmore)
Pivot
Quick Pop
Upper Lower
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Drills
Hip Rolls
Knockdowns
Nine Spot
Angle
Slider
Cross
Cut
Extension
Drop
Back Flip
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Drills
Two Ball
Four Ball
Inner/Outer
Inner/Outer Variations
Juice
Juice/Hanger
Bounce
Seam Reads
Knee Drill
Up Downs
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Drills
Recognition
Zone up
Two strike attack
Juice and Two
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| 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
Relax
Draw box
Attack YOUR pitch
Don’t watch yours
Don’t chase his
Don’t chase non-strikes
No indecision
See off speed up
Ground ball (top half) on Hit/Run
Attack FB strike on Run/Hit
*Bunt strikes
Two strike approach
Wider – down more – over more
CONTACT
Aggressive under control
Release point Focus
Track – Back eye down to contact
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Become student of situations
“Gimme RBI”
Exploit Defensive alignment
Productive outs
FORGET BATTING AVG
OBP/OPS more important
Quality At Bats
Don’t take called third
Stay to the middle of the field against low velo
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Quality At Bat Analysis
- All hard hit balls (Note: Not all hard hit balls are quality at bats.) We want hard contact-barrel to ball skill. Luck factor is not a determining point in QAB (“Quabbie”). “Dinks, dunks, flares, bloops” in themselves do not determine QAB.
- Executing hit and run, run and hit, sacrifice bunt, squeeze, sacrifice fly.
- Walk, hit-by-pitch, catcher’s interference.
- Executing bunt for a hit.
- Moving a runner from 2nd to 3rd with no outs.
- Driving in a run from 3rd with less than two outs.
- Any run batted in.
- 8+ pitch at bat
- When hitter sees 4 or more pitches after being down 0 balls -2 strikes in the count.
Forget batting average – Come out of the 1960’s and into 2025 PLEASE.
Forget antiquated, outdated, useless, non-serviceable stats for anything other than entertainment purposes.
Hard Hit Rate: MLB 35% – 45% College 35% – 45% High School 35% – 45%
Exit Velo: Age 8-10 Ranges, Ave 45-55 Elite 55-65
Age 11-12 Ranges, Ave 55-60 Elite 60-70
Age 13-14 Ranges, Ave 60-65 Elite 65-75
Age 15 Ranges, Ave 70-80 Elite 75-85
Barrel Rate: Elite: 15% Good: 10-14% Ave: 8-9%