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Hitting Development: Blocked & Random Practice
Hitters that hit during BP but don't hit during games - what's the problem? In my opinion, it largely relates to practice design and...

Brandon Matthews
Oct 29, 20213 min read
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Team Hitting Culture: Competition, Growth, and Failure
Developing hitters starts with the culture you want to create. I talk a lot about swinging angry and being in damage mode, but that is...

Brandon Matthews
Oct 29, 20213 min read
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Team Hitting Culture: Development Focus
Developing hitters starts with the culture you want to create. I talk a lot about swinging angry and being in damage mode, but that is...

Brandon Matthews
Oct 29, 20212 min read
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Developing Hitters: Coaching Cues & Constraints
Cues are often used when developing hitters. What we say to an athlete to teach them how to hit can be beneficial or detrimental....

Brandon Matthews
Oct 29, 20212 min read
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Developing Hitters: Practice Design
When we develop hitters we need to create a practice design that will improve performance in competition. Practice design is simply the...

Brandon Matthews
Oct 29, 20211 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Oct 22, 20213 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Oct 8, 20214 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Oct 4, 20211 min read
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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....

Brandon Matthews
Oct 4, 20211 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Jul 17, 20213 min read
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Youth Hitting Development
Recently, I did a Zoom presentation on Youth Hitting Development where I discussed my philosophy on developing youth hitters that will...

Brandon Matthews
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Feb 22, 20211 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Dec 16, 20203 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Jan 30, 20202 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Jan 29, 20202 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Jan 16, 20204 min read
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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)...

Brandon Matthews
Jan 14, 20202 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Nov 25, 20195 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Nov 21, 20193 min read
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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...

Brandon Matthews
Oct 18, 20192 min read
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