Your Questions.Chris’s Answers.

If he isn't striking out much but most of his contact is a ground ball to the pull side, it is usually one of two things: he is coming up out of his swing, or his front shoulder is opening too early. Either one pulls the barrel up and puts him on top of the baseball.

The drill I use is front toss where the coach fakes the toss. If he is already out in front, he feels straight away how weak that is. Once he learns to stay back on that back leg, get his front foot down and drive the ball to the opposite side, he is using his whole body instead of just his upper half.

It frustrates players at first. That is the point, and it is where the results come from.

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Staying in the zone longer. Getting into the zone and out of it too quickly is behind most balls that get mis-hit or missed altogether, and the off-season is when you fix it.

The tell is off the tee. If he is consistently catching the ball off the tip of the bat, his hands are getting too far across instead of staying inside his body. Check his load too: if his hands are outside his front elbow, he will struggle to drive anything to the right side with any strength behind it.

The cue I use is to picture a second baseball in front of the one on the tee, and extend through to hit that one as well. It turns one narrow contact point into a two or three ball window, so being slightly early or slightly late still produces a hit.

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