2019 Major League Hitting Clinic: Modern Strategies for Hitter Development

Featuring:

Russ Steinhorn,
St. Louis Cardinals Hitting Coordinator;
former Philadelphia Phillies Assistant Minor League Hitting Coordinator;
former University of Clemson Director of Player Development;
former coach in the Houston Astros organization (5 seasons)

Andy Haines,
Milwaukee Brewers Hitting Coach;
former Chicago Cubs Assistant Hitting Coach (2018) and Minor League Hitting Coordinator (2016-2017);
former coach in the Miami Marlins organization (8 seasons)

Kenny Graham,
Detroit Tigers Director of Player Development;
former Milwaukee Brewers Hitting Coordinator (3 seasons);
former coach in the Toronto Blue Jays organization (7 seasons)

Trevor Stocking,
Director of Product Marketing & Branding, Axe Bat;
at Axe Bat, Stocking helps the MLB's swing-fitting program that develops custom axe handles for players like Mookie Betts, George Springer, and Kris Bryant;
helped launch Zepp Baseball, which introduced swing metrics like "Attack Angle" and worked with elite pro players such as Mike Trout, Jose Altuve, and Josh Donaldson;
has worked as a private hitting instructor and taught over 10,000 clients

Step inside the doors of the 2019 Major League Hitting Clinic and get access to four presentations from high-level hitting instructors with this video full of helpful tips and guidance for baseball coaches! Coaches Russ Steinhorn (St. Louis Cardinals Hitting Coordinator), Andy Haines (Milwaukee Brewers Hitting Coach), Kenny Graham (Detriot Tigers Director of Player Development) and Trevor Stocking (Director of Product Marketing & Branding, Axe Bat) deliver informative sessions that center around how coaches can make an extraordinary impact on their players' hitting skills.

Russ Steinhorn - Pitch Recognition and In The Box Vision Plan

Coach Steinhorn not only looks at the visual pieces necessary to hit a baseball - he also delves into the vision a coach must have for his or her career. You'll see how to help your players learn to see the ball out of the hand, but still possess the ability to adjust their swing if the pitch isn't what they thought it was. Steinhorn also teaches why hitters first must understand their damage zone, and where it is located, to be able to leverage their skills. Get your hitters to do more damage at the plate by swinging at more pitches in their damage zone!

Andy Haines - Coaching Today's Millennial Hitter & Strategies for In-Game Success

As a hitting coach, connecting with millennial and generation Z athletes presents unique challenges since the world they've grown up in is more customizable than ever. Coach Haines explains some of the reasons why coaching millennial hitters is different from coaching generations of the past, and offers strategies to connect with those players. You'll learn why Haines believes coaches should prepare more than ever in order to make an impact more quickly with young players. In working with a generation that values individuality, you'll learn how to customize and individualize your coaching for each athlete.

Kenny Graham - No Limitations, Making Sense Out of Hitting Twitter

There's so much information about hitting being shared on social media, but like many parts of life, quantity does not equal quality! Coach Graham's session will teach you what to look for when navigating through information and arguments online, and how to separate the experts, who are moving the game forward, from the self-promoting gurus seeking personal gain. In the past decade especially, science and technology has moved the game of baseball forward more than one could have imagined. Graham puts that in perspective and explains that the foundation of the game hasn't changed, but how things are measured, evaluated and taught has evolved greatly. You will learn how to use that new data and incorporate it without becoming a slave to numbers.

Trevor Stocking - Overload/Underload Theory by Axe Bat

Overload and underload bats are popular training tools, but it takes a skilled coach to design a comprehensive bat speed training program for each individual athlete. In his session, Coach Stocking explain the benefits of each bat, why they work, and how to use each to its optimal training benefit. How much overload or underload is optimal for bat speed improvement? Stocking teaches the differences between barrel loaded and hand loaded bats, and which swing flaws each will help address. Additionally, you'll see how to use underloaded bats to shock the central nervous system, and how long bats can help with optimal barrel path.

If you want to see what some of the game's leaders in hitting instruction are doing to influence the performance of baseball's pro athletes, the four sessions included in this video fit the bill!

177 minutes (2 discs). 2020.