Juniors
"You owe it to yourself to the best you can possibly be -- in baseball and in live." -- Pete Rose
Expectations and Learning Objectives
Reasonable Expectations: Players should understand basic rules and gameplay concepts, and have some familiarity with throwing, fielding, and hitting fundamentals.
- Objective #1 - Make the game fun & build confidence
- Objective #2 - Reinforce gameplay fundamentals and skills from previous levels
- Objective #3 - Introduce new concepts and rules for playing on the big field with “real” baseball rules
Critical Concepts
- Offensive Skills: Improving consistent contact and power (Offense 6.0)
- Baserunning
- Live leads and steals
- Suggested Drills & Games see
- “Advanced” offensive strategy with new tools available to runners i.e hit & run
- Baserunning
- Defensive Skills: Improve consistency and fix mistakes (Fielding 6.0)
- Suggested Drills & Games see
- Gameplay: In-Game Awareness and Decision-Making (Gameplay 6.0)
- Managing new base-running situations i.e hit & run
- Adjusting to bigger field