Christian Leone
@_Chrisleone
Former NSU Baseball Director of Player Development🦈 Driveline AZ Hitting Intern
Over the last couple of years in professional baseball there has been a lot of discussion about Batting Average and why current MLB hitters struggle to hit over the magical .300 mark. So... Let's Break Down Batting Average 🧵 1/13
Competition Saturday‼️ Spinball & Trajekt FB 100 EV = change bats 105 EV = set another player back a bat Adapt or Die💪
"Perfect practice makes perfect" is NOT helping your hitters Traditional: 50 identical swings off a tee/Flips/BP Reality: Games require adapting to infinite variables Your practice looks clean. Your games look messy. See the problem? 👇
How does Juan Soto do crazy things like this? And drive the ball to all fields? A bat path built by upper body connection 🧵
.@Greyson_M3 was cued up to toe tap into the Hook ‘Em drill which is a great example on how you can blend a drill into a game swing👀 It helped him: 🔵Find a balanced coil between hips & shoulders during his toe tap 🔵Set posture early before he made his move towards the…
Learning a new skill (or practicing one) may be able to increase your ability to hit a baseball, from smash factor to pitch decision. The simple trick? Juggling. Next month, the research findings from my latest study @DrivelineBB go live. Tune in to see the impact. ——————————…
Most people can look at data. Few can break it down without drowning in it. Here’s a simple adjustment I think Oneil Cruz can make—based on one key number: his Attack Angle on fastballs. A quick thread 🧵
⬇️HIP SHOULDER SEPARATION⬇️ “Feel the stretch” is one of the most overused and misunderstood cues in hitting. Because when the game speeds up… feel disappears. What matters is timed tension that holds up under pressure.