Batting Average Analysis

• Hitting with 2 strikes is hard to do.

• Find a way to stay out of 2 strike counts as much as possible.

• The best way to accomplish that is to hit one of the strikes early in the count.

• To do that, the hitter needs to step into the box with a plan, looking to hit the first fastball strike they see. The pressure to decide if they are going to swing is eliminated, the focus is on seeing the ball, making it be a fastball strike, and putting a good swing on it.

• When you take that first pitch fastball strike, you start to put the pitcher in control of your at bat.

• There is nothing less dangerous on a baseball field than a hitter who doesn’t swing the bat.