Two Drills To Stop You From Pulling Off the Ball

[@brianpressman7468]

Matt, I was literally searching for this video about 3 hours ago as my son seemed to open up last night at a fall ball practice. Uncanny!!! Thank you, sir!

[@AntonelliBaseball]

Glad I could help!!!

[@MattsBaseballWorld]

This has to be the best description of getting out of posture, or 'flying out' that I've ever seen. As hard a problem as it can be to fix, it's even harder to find a good diagnostic and fixing video. Great as usual!

[@AntonelliBaseball]

Glad it was helpful!

[@_solarr24_]

Ive been struggling for months on this, and your video has helped me more than anything else. Thank you so much for making this

[@joemchavez]

This is pure gold Matt. I’m going try to bring my sons to your camp next year all the way from Camarillo Ca. As always Thanks for all your tips!

[@vancewitman]

Thanks!

[@AntonelliBaseball]

Thank you!!!

[@gamehunter07]

Love it! Thank you

[@Mitten4371]

For you young hitters out there that are wanting to play highschool and beyond I would take the advice that Matt is giving you. Because this will help you and just because baseball season is over for the year doesn't mean you stop hitting or throwing. Develop a program for yourself or get into a program that will strengthen your skills and work on things that you struggled with. See I pitched from little league to highschool and at age 13 I played travel baseball for coaches that played college or pro. I'm in my mid to late 40's now but what Matt was showing you in these videos I can do in my sleep. But if your serious about it then I would suggest taking these tips seriously even during the off season. I never made it to the pro or college level but I was taught well by those that did but I had my chance in making at least to the pro level and I blew my opportunity. I'm telling you this because nothing is given to you and you have to earn your way on if you plan on playing at the next level and nothing is guaranteed

[@RV83313]

Very true….👍

[@richardenglish8973]

Is it the bad posture and/or pulling up and out of the swing that leads to the opposite field slicing? My kid seems to slice a lot of balls to opposite field but also hits up the middle pretty well. Rarely pulls a ball and when he does, its more of a roll over. Just curious of your thoughts on this.

[@calfusion9287]

@antonellibaseball for these drills, do you place the tee middle of the plate and then have the hitter start from their normal position in the box?

[@AntonelliBaseball]

Yes I do

[@povertygarage705]

Most coaches think that a kid pulling their head off the ball isn't hitting because "you can't hit what you can't see." Nobody actually sees the bat hit the ball. We have high-speed cameras that have definitively proven this for years now. Pulling their head off the ball is more a symptom of a bad swing, and the bad swing is why they're not hitting.

[@dsholt]

I wish anyone had explained hitting to me like this when I was younger.

[@lucimarmolero]

Buen día soy de Venezuela cómo hago para ver los curso de bateo

[@danpeezie]

Can we send this to the Cardinals hitting coaches to show Jordan Walker please? Thank you

[@Johnny_Miller23]

This is my son, will he doing this everyday with his other tee work, thank you

[@TheArtOfDean]

Kyle Schwarber and Luis Arraez came to mind while I was watching this. I wish Matt would do a hitting analysis of both of them, as Schwarber has the most unused stats line I've seen since Adam Dunn in his prime, and Arraez rarely strikes out, which is unheard of these days.

[@MKYW_Tv]

you keep saying your a former mlb player but you never did anything you weren’t good stop living from the past

[@baseballcentral00]

Just stop. You sound ignorant

[@Jeff-dx2cm]

What the hell is wrong with you?

[@webgem14]

This is a clown comment, bro. Making it to the big leagues means you’re better than 99% of all baseball players. He’s closer to Mike Trout than we are to him.

[@MKYW_Tv]

@@webgem14 my point is he’s giving all these lessons to children not for free btw and when you look at his career it don’t show a successful mlb career it’s shows a journey man who moved from team to team padres , nationals , orioles , Yankees , Indians and didn’t make any impact so what can he teach kids ???

[@webgem14]

@@MKYW_Tv my point is, even as an mlb journey man, that’s an incredibly successful career compared to everyone else. There’s several popular coaches now who didn’t sniff the big leagues. Not only that, somebody that’s the absolute best players sometimes make the worst coaches. We should judge the coaches on their coaching ability.

[@mattdesmond9423]

Thanks!

[@AntonelliBaseball]

Thanks so much!