HOW TO FIX BAT DRAG! (Hitting Drills with The

In this video we're talking with The Baseball Doctor Josh Cathcart about how to fix bat drag once and for all. Josh shares with us the difference between bat lag vs bat drag and 2 very simple yet effective baseball hitting drills that will help eliminate bat drag in the baseball swing. If you're experiencing this bat drag swing flaw, give this video a watch until the end, steal these baseball hitting drills, and then be sure to subscribe to The Baseball Doctor because he's got a ton more videos to help you become a better hitter.
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Video Details
00:00 Introducing The Baseball Doctor
00:20 Bat Drag VS Bat Lag
02:24 The most common version of Bat Drag (back elbow)
04:15 Bat Drag Hitting Drills 1 - Dumbbell Turns
05:38 Bat Drag Hitting Drills 2 - Lag Progressions & Back Chaining
08:29 Video Your Baseball Swing
09:29 Best Video Angle for Swing Analysis
10:32 Contact Josh Cathcart
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Thanks so much for watching! If you've got any questions or comments, hop down below and let's chat there! If you want to learn more about baseball hitting drills, bat drag, extension, load, casting, timing, having a short swing, perfect bat path, staying back, great hips, amazing hitting posture, and much more, then stay tuned because The Baseball Doctor and I have got a bunch more coming for you real soon!

[@trlee_1120]

I NEVER comment on videos, but I must say...This is the best instructional hitting video I’ve ever seen on correcting bat drag. Thanks Josh

[@baseballdoctor5473]

Very welcome!

[@baseballdoctor5473]

@@joshuaculp8998 6U is a little young for me. I start at 9yrs old

[@Davetona955]

agreed. This is well done...

[@anthonyz5671]

DITTO!!!

[@danielbaseball]

Hi my son just started pitching/baseball. I posted some of his video. Can you tell us what more we need to improve. Thank you very much. This is his channel. kzbin.info/door/DxaBDHxMRTRXoxv1SJfS4g

[@MichaelSheeley]

I have been having my 10u son do these drills using the camwood bats and I will say that these drills are 100% responsible for a huge improvement in his swing. He makes contact with the ball more often and bat speed is MUCH better. He isn’t late any more. Great drills. I now have the team I coach all doing these drills too.

[@flawlessfantasyfootball]

Just got my son a Camwood bats and program myself💪

[@sydzhen6493]

it's a good one, clear and simple for people who have a hard time figuring out what's bat drag or bat drop, my seniors explained this like crap and made us confused. Thanks for the content John, it's a decent one

[@twinbillsoapbox2276]

This is, by far, the best video i have watched on swing in my life!!!

[@juniorgil4067]

Best baseball coaching video I have ever seen without a doubt.

[@vlonix3510]

fixed my swing grateful💯

[@Shreadington]

Good stuff! We coach a High Level Swing Pattern (HLP) and it's helped to fix over half our 11U boys bat drag. It's made them much more confident when hitting.

[@dmotogearhead2245]

Josh's world is about to get really busy! Watched his vids for at least the past year. One of the most easy to comprehend hitting coaches on YT. Using his hitting training plan once baseball practices start in the north east.

[@baseballdoctor5473]

I'm ready!!!

[@baseballdoctor5473]

You can read the future... I'm slammed👍 good problem to have!

[@JosephusAD70]

Outstanding video! I’ve seen none better at correcting bat drag. You clearly have the gift of communication. That first drill was worth the price of admission. :) Thanks!

[@baseballdoctor5473]

Thank you sir

[@hawgfan01]

This is a great video. Excellent breakdown.

[@user-id7xq4ff3n]

Great job- I have been coaching fastpitch softball for 40 years and this is one of the best on fixing bat drag.

[@dean-fx]

Stumbled on this video looking for some pointers to help my son (11yo) with his batting; this is perfectly explained, I cannot wait to show this to him, I think it will be extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@XeononC1]

Excellent Love the purposeful explanations without wasting words

[@baseballdoctor5473]

Much appreciated

[@toddbetzen5802]

Awesome drills. Thanks!

[@dhos0082]

Love the effects of the batt hitting the ball lol. Great video from both of you as always!!!! Big thank you

[@carllutz7523]

Awesome video!! Explains things so well.

[@randylusby4876]

Great drills. Nice to see someone understands bat control.

[@chrisdotsicas3331]

Amazingly shown and detailed ! Great job fellas!!!

[@nathanjohns4408]

Thank you. Great job, I love the passion

[@nkbc5819]

Excellent teaching. You made it very simple to understand.

[@yoonlee7924]

I finally found the answer to my son’s drag position! Thanks this helps a lot!!!

[@georgereyes7829]

Thank you, Josh. It was a great video

[@db336]

Another great video!

[@wesleygolden3985]

Thanks for video

[@rha995]

Josh is the BEST!

[@baseballdoctor5473]

Much love!

[@TahaKhan-pt7de]

thankyou help me alot in improving my technique

[@fernandos.8158]

This was an awesome and easy explanation of the bat drag and lag. Will be using these drills with my 14U daughter for her swing. Thanks and appreciate your video.

[@andylopez3346]

I don’t know who you are, but baseball Dr suits you well. These videos are the best I have seen for instructional hitting, and I’ve been trying to learn more about hitting for years. This is the best. Hands down.

[@baseballdoctor5473]

Thank you very much!

[@maddenjenkins1083]

Amazing video !!

[@moonpigeon]

Wow. Thank you!

[@nickestrada6204]

Great video, and I love the visual effects when the bat contacts the ball lol. Its like a comic book

[@dickydoesaudio3466]

Good stuff right there man!!!

[@ericschryver73]

Well that was cool... and informative.

[@waterman4]

incredible video. good stuff guys.

[@baseballdoctor5473]

Thanks!

[@LeonardOutdoorsNM]

Great video and instruction!

[@Oclotz]

THIS IS 10/10 VIDEO. THANK YOU

[@damienbell3155]

Great video. Using ball under armpit a good one also

[@DemunJonesMusic]

Great information

[@Promote_Media]

Bat drag VS bat lag 👍💯

[@Revelation22v13]

Great video!

[@davidgarcia6296]

Great way to explain it. Some coaches don't teach that enough

[@jordaz87]

Great video thanks

[@isMike999]

awesome video...thanks

[@timnguyen4754]

Thank you, Coach. Fantastic videos! Your videos have made a tremendous improvement with my son's swing. He's been switch hitting since 5 now 12, so constantly looking for ways to have both sides look the same.

[@insaneedits7914]

This is going to help this is my dream to be a baseball player

[@tonygrana9383]

I was having a hard time keeping my elbow up so me and my dad tried to fix it but it did not work so as a great dad he is he looked for a good video and found this. thank you for the help.

[@schoolysgrandson6044]

Good video please make more like this

[@michaeliwanow5163]

Exponential great,✅

[@jameswahler5434]

Love this

[@Bill-uo6cm]

I like it!!!

[@danreed7622]

Great video

[@MonkeyMan_12343]

i love your camp so much btw

[@deenatabor2826]

First time watching great video ⚾️

[@rayrodriguez8214]

I was not ready for the effect when you hit the ball lol. Great video

[@glovesew]

🤙good video

[@ericjshipe]

Man, great vid, funny how KZbin gives you an exact solution to the problem you’re trying to fix.

[@Patrick_mahomes_goat]

This is the first video I’ve seen where I feel like I actually understand what you’re saying. You mentioned at the end that you do analysis. I’m a single mom trying to help my son get better and learning through videos such as this and can see he’s frustrated. Where could we send a video for you to check out? We would be super interested in hearing what you have to say so I can try to help him. Thank you!

[@RG-zw5wc]

Awesome video

[@tracih.9443]

Best video ever

[@brucestack1658]

I love the use of the dumbbell! That should make it self correcting. Holding a weight in close, you will have control....if you punch back, it will become exponentially heavier, same if you push hands forward from your chest. Such a great idea I didnt consider.

[@bonesjones988]

I been on the Baseball Doctors waitlist for over a year now. This dude is harder to get a hold of than the President.

[@kirillkulkov7009]

Russia has a baseball game! We learn from your videos! Thank you.

[@playbaseballwithsiridhamma1273]

Good job,I got you, you help me

[@seroromix]

Hey Coach Madden when you were apart of the mets did you learn the dan warthen slider if so could you do a video on it?

[@stepbystep834]

@baseballdoctor can you make a video for youth players on timing while hitting

[@cbanks1980]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@pctight]

Very Nice! Thank you for explaining it so well! I heard it is better to train the kids on this while they are young. Do you have an age recommendation as to when kids should start to practice this? Is success with this technique dependent on the ability to generate power? For example, kids in t-ball who are too weak to generate any power, would teaching them this technique help or hurt their t-ball performance in their t-ball games? I literally just saw kids this season in t-ball trying these techniques forced by their parents, but they would strike out a lot, hit directly to the pitcher or first base, or not hit very far, and they would get out more often than kids who didn't try so hard to perfect these moves. Is T-ball to young to start them training them with this technique? What are your thoughts?

[@theonlyoned6409]

If you're going to go see him make sure to go a little north to Montgomery County and see Ron at Texas Baseball Ranch

[@enniswhalen2428]

@ T o o D - Hey, I thought you meant Montgomery County, PENNSYLVANIA ! My bad!

[@JuanGonzalez-th5dh]

Trying to help my son fix his drag which then leads to lunging. Going to try this technique. My question is do you implement any type of stride with this technique. Thank you for your videos!!

[@albertpizarro3857]

Juan, the stride should not be related to bat drag. The reason is because when the player strides he is not swinging or turning yet. The stuff here on the video is related to when the stride is completed, the front foot is flat on the ground and then you can start turning the hips, which is when the turning starts and thus bat dragging happens due to the 3 issues mentioned on the video. Now is very common with young hitters to even start dragging before the front foot is down, which is due to hitters starting to swing or turn too early before the front foot is down. This almost always creates bat drag.

[@JuanGonzalez-th5dh]

@@albertpizarro3857 thank you I appreciate the feedback. My son is a small guy and he was in fire before Covid where I live in LA everything shutdown so my sons play we t down it’s like starting over and the mechanics are horrible bat drag is part of the issue. He went from a 31 to 32” bat size and I’ve asked him to go back to a 31” where he could possibly handle that bat better but right now his pride is in his way. Any thoughts to that?

[@albertpizarro3857]

What’s his age? A 32” is usually for a high school kid or a Pre-high school tall/big. If he’s not keeping good control of the barrel then shorter/lighter bat is better to improve bat path/control.

[@JuanGonzalez-th5dh]

@@albertpizarro3857 15 to turn 16

[@JuanGonzalez-th5dh]

5’7 130lbs. That’s my thoughts too but I think he feels embarrassed using smaller bat then everyone else

[@commomcents]

Swing the knob and The barrel follows..Tony Gwynn 👍🙏

[@zacharyward3123]

At what age is it good to start working on my 7yo drags elbow badly but I don’t want to overwhelm him. Kid is batting a 1000 with 15 at bats this season on coach pitch. Figured I’d wait until end of season to work with him. His cadence is there and hits many between third and short stop as a RH hitter.

[@mattytaylor5958]

I don’t comment on vids but great vid

[@alberto1005]

What happened to the baseball doctor’s content? All gone. His social media is all offline as well. Love his content.

[@jonathonsalazar7011]

He has a new channel. Hitting Done Right. Not sure why. I miss his old videos.

[@figirovac81]

What about batters that bat differently in Bp than the game?? Working with my son

[@findthecourage]

Dude...you’re not paid nearly enough. Just sayin. But you ARE appreciated.

[@bjcash4655]

I’m sorry, I’m the one that did liked BY ACCIDENT! Fat fingered. This is a great video, was trying to like and save… Great Video I learned a lot!

[@nickpack8742]

Hope u went to Killens BBQ while you were there...

[@SC-mw2yc]

Does this technique apply to fast pitch softball girls?

[@baseballdoctor5473]

Absolutely

[@chrislegereit7204]

Hey coach, are you taking on any new kiddos for lessons?

[@joshdavidian]

Teacherman has entered the chat...

[@dblankenship88]

Mental cue for younger hitters that clearly don’t understand the terminology. We never want to drag our bat through the zone. We do want to create lag so we can release the barrel. Those simple statements with a proper display of both click well with younger guys.

[@jrmiller3368]

What happened to joshs youtube channel and videos?

[@tratay3027]

Hey coach madden can you make a video of how to not get robbed of an at bat. Today I played a game and was robbed of 2 of 3 of my at bats due to inconsistent calls. Also can you make a video on having thick skin also today I was pitching an everything was great struck out the side in the first inning and got everyone else out with pop ups. Later going deeper in the game the opposing team began to talk and throw insults and I couldn’t concentrate. I asked the umpire behind me could he make them stop and he looked confused and said what do you mean after 3 tries and failures I took matters in my own hands in my next at bat when the catcher continued to insult me I told him to shut the F up and was met with a tall with the umpire which ended with him telling me not to do that again. He also proceeded to rob me of my next at bats leaving me guessing what to swing at and calling pitches strikes below and outside of the strike zone

[@richardlovell7316]

And I always thought 'bat lag' was the angle between the barrel and top hand wrist/forearm...go figure.

[@tcdesigngroup]

Who the heck is giving this a thumbs down?

[@iamOAKland]

Pitchers!!!

[@anthonyz5671]

How applicable is this to softball? I have a daughter that has ZERO bat speed and drops all the time.

[@TheRoadLessChosen]

Very.

[@anthonyz5671]

@@TheRoadLessChosen ok thanks. I have had people constantly tell me that softball swing and baseball swings are different. I have no playing experience. I mean I played when I was young but not at a level where there was a lot of coaching detail. So I rely on others that know. I am starting to see that the swings are really not much different.

[@TheRoadLessChosen]

@@anthonyz5671 yea. It’s a mixed response but the truth is the attack is the same. Even for “rising” softballs. They don’t really rise. I teach my kids boys and girls the same swing. In fact I’ve been teaching what Joey Myers teaches. You can look him up under hitting performance lab. Many women’s D1 coaches are teaching his stuff and absolutely destroying the ball. Actually just watched a video he released today. hittingperformancelab.com/softball-practice-drills/?Email&General-List& don’t want to hijack this video. I like these guys as well but I haven’t seen anything on softball from them.

[@anthonyz5671]

@@TheRoadLessChosen sounds good Ill have to check it out. Not to be confrontational or anything, but there is one softball pitch that does truly rise. Its called a Rise-ball. I do know pitching since my daughter is a pitcher It has a different rotation than other patches. a good pitcher can make it jump from about knee high to chest high. Ive seen it devastating pitch.

[@djhunt77]

@@anthonyz5671 the rise ball doesn't actually defy gravity and increase angle post-release. it appears to rise but in reality it doesn't drop as much as the other pitches. the pitcher releases the ball near their thigh at an uphill angle, so that it will cross the plate often above the strike zone and near the batter's shoulders. if you track the angle from the side you'll see the ball does drop. www.studlife.com/sports/softball-sports/2016/04/07/thanks-magnus-physics-defines-softballs-signature-pitch/

[@HudsonSelf]

This doesn’t fix the drag for any kid under 10 years old. There’s only 1 way to fix drag for a anyone younger.

[@rickzech6490]

Can’t wear baseball cap correctly.

[@benbbuxton]

Stop moving the zoom / panning effect with the camera, distracting from the content of the video.

[@JHSports]

Where is the mask 😷

[@YouGoPro]

It’s at the viewers discretion to make sure their phone, iPad, tv, (whatever they’re watching on) is 6 feet away while viewing. Thank you.

[@dmotogearhead2245]

Your parents tell you to virtue post to grab some views?

[@JHSports]

No, why were you not wearing a mask 😷 at the facility in this video?

[@krisdeaglephotography4539]

Not sheep.

[@maddenjenkins1083]

@@YouGoPro HAHAHHAHA that was a good one , this is why I love having my name !! We’re funny people 🤣