Offseason Training: Bat Speed, Power, and Consistency
What are your goals as a hitter? For most hitters this includes hitting the ball harder, farther, and more consistently. How do we do...
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Brandon Matthews
- Oct 8, 2021
- 4 min
Hitting Approach: Swings and Takes with Juan Soto
Being a productive hitter is as simple as making good decisions. Should you swing? Should you take? Pitchers try to make this difficult...
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Brandon Matthews
- Oct 4, 2021
- 1 min
Mental Game - How Did I Perform?
Here is another example of mental game reflection as it relates to hitters. After a week of games, scrimmages, and/or tournaments, take a...
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Brandon Matthews
- Oct 4, 2021
- 1 min
Mental Checklist - Offensive Reflection
Often times players and coaches get caught up in the physical and mechanical aspect of hitting development and overlook the mental side....
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Brandon Matthews
- Jul 18, 2021
- 3 min
Long Term Athletic Development - Travel Ball
Youth development in baseball and softball seems to revolve around travel ball - joining a team for a fee and playing lots of weekend...
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Brandon Matthews
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
Youth Hitting Development
Recently, I did a Zoom presentation on Youth Hitting Development where I discussed my philosophy on developing youth hitters that will...
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Brandon Matthews
- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
Assessments, Technology & Data-Driven Training
In this video blog we take an inside look at how we perform hitting assessments and use performance technology such as HitTrax and...
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Brandon Matthews
- Dec 16, 2020
- 3 min
A Simple Training Tip for More Hits, Doubles, and Homers
It's the winter off-season and many players are preparing for the upcoming competitive year. Players might be going to the cages a few...
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Brandon Matthews
- Jan 30, 2020
- 2 min
Success Spotlight: Youth Softball Hitter
This is a summary of the transformation for a youth softball hitter: In the pretest the hitter showed an ability to hit the ball hard but...
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Brandon Matthews
- Jan 29, 2020
- 2 min
Success Spotlight: Youth Hitter
Day 1 The first day a hitter comes into the facility we go through an assessment to establish a benchmark of where the hitter's current...
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Brandon Matthews
- Jan 16, 2020
- 4 min
How Correct Hitting Posture Can Improve Your Swing
Hitting posture and setup is crucial to creating a smooth entry and a solid batted ball collision. When we talk about posture we are...
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Brandon Matthews
- Jan 14, 2020
- 2 min
Mental Game: Quality At-Bat Routines
Good hitters have confidence and solid routines. Here is a sample routine to keep the hitter mentally prepared for the next at-bat. 1)...
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Brandon Matthews
- Nov 25, 2019
- 5 min
Hitting Assessments & Evaluations: The Complete Story of The Swing
If you aren't assessing you're guessing. Coaching baseball or softball hitters must start with an assessment, which includes data...
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Brandon Matthews
- Nov 21, 2019
- 3 min
Middle School Case Study: Data Driven Programming Creates Results
Data Driven Programming When a company is data driven it means they make strategic decisions using collected data, analysis, and...
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Brandon Matthews
- Oct 18, 2019
- 2 min
Measuring Offensive Production
Batting average is arguably the most popular offensive stat talked about in the game of baseball or softball. Even people who don't...
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Brandon Matthews
- Oct 3, 2019
- 3 min
Inside The Data: Swing Decisions That Create Successful Hitters
Why are hitters swinging less often prior to two strikes and so much more often when they have two strikes?
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Brandon Matthews
- Aug 5, 2019
- 4 min
Optimizing Your Lineup - Score More Runs
Disclaimer: If you haven’t read The Book by Tom Tango, you should check it out as what I am about to talk about is merely a glimpse...
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Brandon Matthews
- Jul 15, 2019
- 5 min
Two Strike Hitting Is Still Hitting
Two strike hitting is a commonly talked about part of hitting. One Google search and you can find tons of results on the two strike...
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Brandon Matthews
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
Fly Balls: Why Using "Two Hands" Might Cause More Drops or Misses
If you are around any ballpark long enough you will probably hear the phrase "two hands" mentioned at some point. I'm sure you can also...
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Brandon Matthews
- Jul 8, 2019
- 3 min
The 3-0 Count: It's Not an Automatic Take!
You see it all the time in baseball. The batter has a 3-0 count and the pitcher grooves the next pitch down the heart of the plate for...
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