These are the questions that most people have asked me when I have explained what we are trying to do with the 15 minute batting cage routine:
What is a 15 minute cage routine?
The batting cage routine is a disciplined approach that defines a way to maximize what a hitter can accomplish in a 15 minutes batting cage session (which is what you can get daily with a Strike Zone membership).
Why is it needed?
I’ve seen many players, including my own players, wasting their batting cage time railing on waist high pitches down the middle of the plate. I wanted my players to make better use of their time and work on their weaknesses so they could improve their hitting.
How does it work?
First, the players need be disciplined enough to follow instructions. They must understand why they aren’t just railing on the baseball anymore.
Simply put, we are trying to:
1) make them a more complete hitter who can hit a pitch wherever it is thrown
2) decrease their strikeouts. Once they understand the why, the how makes more sense to them
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We figured out that during a 15 minute cage session, a player will get approximately 150 pitches (depending upon how fast the restart button is pushed). The pitching machines generally throw the ball waist high and down the middle of the plate.
So, we had to define where the batter should stand to “move” the pitch to where we want them to work on. As the diagram indicates, we defined 9 areas for the players to work on.
