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Founder & CEO @hittersuniv | Dad to Ella Rae | Former UCF Knight & Chipola Indian | SWRHS Athletics Hall of Fame | 5 Yrs Pro ⚾️

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Max Clark top hand drill. Focusing on proper technique >> max effort Hitters University

Max Clark top hand drill. Focusing on proper technique >> max effort Hitters University

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Dylan Crews 2 Strike approach. The best hitters adjust pitch to pitch & to the game situation. First 2 strikes are for Dylan Crews to look to do damage & drive the baseball for extra bases. The 3rd is for the LSU Tigers. Spread out. Foot down early. Be on time. Refuse to K!!!

Dylan Crews 2 Strike approach. The best hitters adjust pitch to pitch & to the game situation. First 2 strikes are for Dylan Crews to look to do damage & drive the baseball for extra bases. The 3rd is for the LSU Tigers. Spread out. Foot down early. Be on time. Refuse to K!!!

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Everybody talks about bat path but some kids don’t truly know or understand what it means. So this visual helps them a ton & teaches them how to create margin of error and keep going through the middle. One of my favorite drills. Hitters University

Everybody talks about bat path but some kids don’t truly know or understand what it means. So this visual helps them a ton & teaches them how to create margin of error and keep going through the middle. One of my favorite drills. Hitters University

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Hitters U PVC pipe drill. Each player requires a different feel & attack angle to find an elite bat path that works for them. Some need to feel down… some need to feel slightly up 💪🚀 Hitters University

Hitters U PVC pipe drill. Each player requires a different feel & attack angle to find an elite bat path that works for them. Some need to feel down… some need to feel slightly up 💪🚀 Hitters University

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The drop drill. Cleans up so much in the swing. To hit the ball you must be able to launch instantly, be short & quick, & square it up on the barrel. If you can hit this, you can hit anything. Hitters University

The drop drill. Cleans up so much in the swing. To hit the ball you must be able to launch instantly, be short & quick, & square it up on the barrel. If you can hit this, you can hit anything. Hitters University

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Kerry Carpenter working on controlling the back leg with limited forward movement / being ready to go instantly when he decides to swing from a fully loaded position. Such a sick swing. Proud to see the player he has turned into these last few years. All his hard work has paid off. Some things to take into account. Kerry has always had a great swing. The loading & timing change that he made to start pretty much already loaded with the upper half and weight on his back leg has eliminated slop & extra movement in his swing & created a consistent timing mechanism he can use each time he steps into the box. Now he can just wait longer to read the baseball, decide to swing, & unleash from a fully loaded position.

Kerry Carpenter working on controlling the back leg with limited forward movement / being ready to go instantly when he decides to swing from a fully loaded position. Such a sick swing. Proud to see the player he has turned into these last few years. All his hard work has paid off. Some things to take into account. Kerry has always had a great swing. The loading & timing change that he made to start pretty much already loaded with the upper half and weight on his back leg has eliminated slop & extra movement in his swing & created a consistent timing mechanism he can use each time he steps into the box. Now he can just wait longer to read the baseball, decide to swing, & unleash from a fully loaded position.

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WHIFFLE BALL BAT THROWS— GREAT DRILL FOR YOUNG PLAYERS… when working with young players at Hitters U we like to use drills with external focuses to get the players to understand & feel the proper way of moving without explaining it to them. These drills naturally get you to the place you need to be or you won’t be able to throw the whiffle bat through the middle. Fly open it will go in foul territory, have a big upper cut the bat will hit the ceiling. Hitters University

WHIFFLE BALL BAT THROWS— GREAT DRILL FOR YOUNG PLAYERS… when working with young players at Hitters U we like to use drills with external focuses to get the players to understand & feel the proper way of moving without explaining it to them. These drills naturally get you to the place you need to be or you won’t be able to throw the whiffle bat through the middle. Fly open it will go in foul territory, have a big upper cut the bat will hit the ceiling. Hitters University

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🚨 THE BIGGEST LIE IN MODERN HITTING. We’ve become a game of clones. Everyone wants the same launch angle, the same hand path, and the same “aesthetic” finish. But here is the reality: If you’re coaching every kid to move the same way, you aren’t coaching—you’re just copying and pasting. 🧩 Feel vs. Real The truth is found in who can decipher the feel vs. real for every individual player. • What a coach sees on camera (Real) is almost never what the athlete is experiencing (Feel). • If you tell a hitter to “get on plane” and they start dumping their barrels, your “correct” advice just broke their swing. 🧬 Different Bodies, Different Movements Everyone is built differently. One hitter has long levers and tight hips; another is short, explosive, and hyper-mobile. Everyone moves differently. So why on earth are we buying into ONE rigid swing philosophy? Unless that philosophy is the one that allows you to get the only intended result that matters: CONSISTENT BARRELS. 🎯 The Bottom Line Stop trying to win the “Best Looking Swing” award on Instagram. If your swing is “ugly” but you’re a barrel machine, you’re a better hitter than the kid with the “perfect” mechanics who can’t touch a high-spin heater. We need to stop chasing positions and start chasing intent. If the “feel” creates the “result,” keep it. Everything else is just noise. Stop cloning. Start competing. If you want to build a swing that is for for you, sign up for a 1:1 coaching call. DM us here.

🚨 THE BIGGEST LIE IN MODERN HITTING. We’ve become a game of clones. Everyone wants the same launch angle, the same hand path, and the same “aesthetic” finish. But here is the reality: If you’re coaching every kid to move the same way, you aren’t coaching—you’re just copying and pasting. 🧩 Feel vs. Real The truth is found in who can decipher the feel vs. real for every individual player. • What a coach sees on camera (Real) is almost never what the athlete is experiencing (Feel). • If you tell a hitter to “get on plane” and they start dumping their barrels, your “correct” advice just broke their swing. 🧬 Different Bodies, Different Movements Everyone is built differently. One hitter has long levers and tight hips; another is short, explosive, and hyper-mobile. Everyone moves differently. So why on earth are we buying into ONE rigid swing philosophy? Unless that philosophy is the one that allows you to get the only intended result that matters: CONSISTENT BARRELS. 🎯 The Bottom Line Stop trying to win the “Best Looking Swing” award on Instagram. If your swing is “ugly” but you’re a barrel machine, you’re a better hitter than the kid with the “perfect” mechanics who can’t touch a high-spin heater. We need to stop chasing positions and start chasing intent. If the “feel” creates the “result,” keep it. Everything else is just noise. Stop cloning. Start competing. If you want to build a swing that is for for you, sign up for a 1:1 coaching call. DM us here.

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How throwing a frisbee helps groom a proper bat path. To throw the frisbee down the cage to the back of the net you have to have good DIRECTION & path towards the middle. If you fly open it will hit either side of the net. We want large margin of error through the middle of the field. We will be having 2 clinics in December at Hitters U! DM us to sign up or to join our online baseball academy/community Hitters University

How throwing a frisbee helps groom a proper bat path. To throw the frisbee down the cage to the back of the net you have to have good DIRECTION & path towards the middle. If you fly open it will hit either side of the net. We want large margin of error through the middle of the field. We will be having 2 clinics in December at Hitters U! DM us to sign up or to join our online baseball academy/community Hitters University

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Luis Arraez off season work. Amazing drill. You must be short to the baseball to even hit this pitch. Hitters University
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Luis Arraez off season work. Amazing drill. You must be short to the baseball to even hit this pitch. Hitters University

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Juan Soto talks mechanics, routine, swing thoughts. The best players in the world all tend to think the same thing & work similarly. Listen to the greats. Hunt for back spin & low line drives with a short & repeatable swing!
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Juan Soto talks mechanics, routine, swing thoughts. The best players in the world all tend to think the same thing & work similarly. Listen to the greats. Hunt for back spin & low line drives with a short & repeatable swing!

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JJ Wetherholt on staying on the back leg when hitting. Hitters University
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JJ Wetherholt on staying on the back leg when hitting. Hitters University

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Absolute gold from Derek Jeter. Let your kids know you love them and are proud of them no matter what. Remove the fear of failure and teach them how to be great teammates. When kids aren’t scared to fail, they play free and that’s when they truly enjoy the game. Yes, we still want to WIN 🏆. Yes, we teach kids to compete and give their best. But we also teach them to detach from the result, good or bad, and know that as parents, we’re always in their corner. That’s how you build confident players and better people. Hitters University
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Absolute gold from Derek Jeter. Let your kids know you love them and are proud of them no matter what. Remove the fear of failure and teach them how to be great teammates. When kids aren’t scared to fail, they play free and that’s when they truly enjoy the game. Yes, we still want to WIN 🏆. Yes, we teach kids to compete and give their best. But we also teach them to detach from the result, good or bad, and know that as parents, we’re always in their corner. That’s how you build confident players and better people. Hitters University

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123,665 views • 4 months ago

Don Mattingly explaining to practice being short & quick in practice with the focus of hitting line drives opposed to trying to lift & launch in batting practice. If you are hitting low line drives with back spin in practice consistently off of 60 MPH when you take that same swing off of 90+ MPH & just miss slightly below / clip the bottom half. Those turn into Doubles & Home Runs. But when you try and lift off of batting practice & lift in the game. That is when you find tons of swing & miss as well as top spin ground balls.
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Don Mattingly explaining to practice being short & quick in practice with the focus of hitting line drives opposed to trying to lift & launch in batting practice. If you are hitting low line drives with back spin in practice consistently off of 60 MPH when you take that same swing off of 90+ MPH & just miss slightly below / clip the bottom half. Those turn into Doubles & Home Runs. But when you try and lift off of batting practice & lift in the game. That is when you find tons of swing & miss as well as top spin ground balls.

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372,638 views • 1 year ago

Tee on the inside half. Hit it back up the middle. I’d do this drill a lot to groom my bat path to be short & inside the baseball. If you can consistently be inside the baseball it will allow you to trust your self to let the baseball travel deep towards the plate before you make a decision to swing. When you can let the ball travel deeper to make a decision to swing you swing at better pitches…. When you swing at better pitches & track the ball longer you square up more baseballs…. Square up more baseballs get more hits! Hitters University
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Tee on the inside half. Hit it back up the middle. I’d do this drill a lot to groom my bat path to be short & inside the baseball. If you can consistently be inside the baseball it will allow you to trust your self to let the baseball travel deep towards the plate before you make a decision to swing. When you can let the ball travel deeper to make a decision to swing you swing at better pitches…. When you swing at better pitches & track the ball longer you square up more baseballs…. Square up more baseballs get more hits! Hitters University

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224,668 views • 1 year ago

Juan Soto talking about being short to the ball & on top of the ball to get that back spin & not top spin or knuckle balls. Down through the baseball with good extension & your head on the baseball creates solid contact & consistency. Great example right here!
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Juan Soto talking about being short to the ball & on top of the ball to get that back spin & not top spin or knuckle balls. Down through the baseball with good extension & your head on the baseball creates solid contact & consistency. Great example right here!

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155,433 views • 1 year ago

Hitting Drill to stop casting & stay inside the baseball. ⚾️ ✅ Hitters University
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Hitting Drill to stop casting & stay inside the baseball. ⚾️ ✅ Hitters University

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123,222 views • 1 year ago

Mookie Betts on visualization. Take at bats in your mind before you go to bed. Visualize the pitcher you’re going to face the next day & you putting your best swings on the baseball. Try to create a vivid image of what you’re going to do & of you having success. You’ll be shocked when you go do it the next day how you feel a sense of Deja vu. Your body just knows what to do & as it’s already been there before. The power of the mind is a crazy thing! #manifesting #visualization #mentalgame Hitters University
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Mookie Betts on visualization. Take at bats in your mind before you go to bed. Visualize the pitcher you’re going to face the next day & you putting your best swings on the baseball. Try to create a vivid image of what you’re going to do & of you having success. You’ll be shocked when you go do it the next day how you feel a sense of Deja vu. Your body just knows what to do & as it’s already been there before. The power of the mind is a crazy thing! #manifesting #visualization #mentalgame Hitters University

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138,101 views • 1 year ago

Dylan Crews Cage Work & High Tee. Great stuff here that all young players could take some nuggets from. Love the best players coming out and telling the world what they truly do in the cage. Short, flat, quick swings play at every level in the world! ✅ Hitters University
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Dylan Crews Cage Work & High Tee. Great stuff here that all young players could take some nuggets from. Love the best players coming out and telling the world what they truly do in the cage. Short, flat, quick swings play at every level in the world! ✅ Hitters University

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Dylan Crews Angled Flips/Cage Work ✅ - Focus on creating a solid bat path inside the baseball. - Making sure he’s not just feeling for it but trying to drive balls through the middle of the field. Low & hard through the middle the other way is his goal. - Same focus as the high tee staying down on it to create backspin. Train like the best in the world do! Hitters University
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Dylan Crews Angled Flips/Cage Work ✅ - Focus on creating a solid bat path inside the baseball. - Making sure he’s not just feeling for it but trying to drive balls through the middle of the field. Low & hard through the middle the other way is his goal. - Same focus as the high tee staying down on it to create backspin. Train like the best in the world do! Hitters University

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When are you starting your load? —Most of the games best hitters start there load & get into a ready position to hit before the ball leaves the pitchers hand. —Starting your load when the pitchers hand breaks is a good cue to go off of. Every single pitcher has to do this to throw the ball. Once there hand breaks every pitchers time to plate is close in timing. Giving you a consistent time to start. —Being on time towards the opposite field gap or through the middle for fastball. Gives you a chance to do damage on both pitches. The FB & Off speed. When you get into your advantage counts & have earned your fastball. 2-0, 3-0, 3-1. You can now then shift your sights over towards the pull side gap. —Hope this helps some people! #PlayerDevelopment
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When are you starting your load? —Most of the games best hitters start there load & get into a ready position to hit before the ball leaves the pitchers hand. —Starting your load when the pitchers hand breaks is a good cue to go off of. Every single pitcher has to do this to throw the ball. Once there hand breaks every pitchers time to plate is close in timing. Giving you a consistent time to start. —Being on time towards the opposite field gap or through the middle for fastball. Gives you a chance to do damage on both pitches. The FB & Off speed. When you get into your advantage counts & have earned your fastball. 2-0, 3-0, 3-1. You can now then shift your sights over towards the pull side gap. —Hope this helps some people! #PlayerDevelopment

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105,599 views • 2 years ago

Absolute gold by Jo Adell Jo Adell with this drill demonstration he did on @mlbnetwork — stay connected & through the middle! We do this drill at HU with our players & see great results from it. 💪 Hitters University
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Absolute gold by Jo Adell Jo Adell with this drill demonstration he did on @mlbnetwork — stay connected & through the middle! We do this drill at HU with our players & see great results from it. 💪 Hitters University

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17,754 views • 2 months ago

Glove pad drill. Top hand & Bottom hand. Stay direct. Work through the middle of the field. Barry Bonds & Vlad Jr special. This drill cleans up your swing tremendously. Train smarter with the Hitters University Online Academy. For a link to our online academy DM me “HIT” Hitters University
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Glove pad drill. Top hand & Bottom hand. Stay direct. Work through the middle of the field. Barry Bonds & Vlad Jr special. This drill cleans up your swing tremendously. Train smarter with the Hitters University Online Academy. For a link to our online academy DM me “HIT” Hitters University

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24,787 views • 5 months ago

Royce Lewis talking about the high tee drill & his hopes to generate backspin. Low line drives through the middle off practice = Driving the ball in the games! The best hitters that I have been around think about having short, direct, flat swings that are simple & repeatable.
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Royce Lewis talking about the high tee drill & his hopes to generate backspin. Low line drives through the middle off practice = Driving the ball in the games! The best hitters that I have been around think about having short, direct, flat swings that are simple & repeatable.

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53,511 views • 1 year ago

Jarred Kelenic talking hitting. Precision over muscling up & trying to swing so hard. Strike the ball consistently with good barrel accuracy & good things will happen. Try & swing too hard & you will be inconsistent. You want high bat speed & exit velocity for sure. But that comes from the weight room, proper nutrition, & a bat speed plan. Once you do that & have the elite engine. You just try to strike it cleanly! Hitters University
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Jarred Kelenic talking hitting. Precision over muscling up & trying to swing so hard. Strike the ball consistently with good barrel accuracy & good things will happen. Try & swing too hard & you will be inconsistent. You want high bat speed & exit velocity for sure. But that comes from the weight room, proper nutrition, & a bat speed plan. Once you do that & have the elite engine. You just try to strike it cleanly! Hitters University

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51,728 views • 1 year ago

How I’d get good FAST as a baseball player: First get in the gym and commit. 6 days a week: upper / lower / arms, repeat. 1 full rest day. Do this for 6 straight months minimum. Build strength, durability, and discipline. Second the baseball work has to be intentional. Hit 5–6x/week with a plan. Not just swinging… purposeful reps. Work with a coach who gives you structure, routine, and adjustments. Then put in the REAL work on your own. Extra swings. Extra reps. Extra time. This part matters: You are NOT going to develop at practice alone. High school, travel, even college practice isn’t enough. The jump happens in the hours nobody sees. Third fuel your body like an athlete. Eat enough protein to recover and build strength. Hydrate consistently. Add electrolytes. Recovery = performance. If your body breaks down, so does your progress. Fourth train your mind daily. Read 1 chapter a day: •Heads Up Baseball 2.0 •The Alchemist •The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success •The Four Agreements •It’s All in Your Head You need mental toughness to handle failure, pressure, and long stretches with no visible results. That’s part of it. Now tie it all together: Training + reps + nutrition + mindset. Do ALL of it consistently. Then do it for 3–5 years. No shortcuts. No skipping steps. Keep your head down. Stay obsessed with getting better—not being seen. The results will come if the work is real. If you want a clear plan + mentorship on exactly how to do this, reach out. Hitters University
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How I’d get good FAST as a baseball player: First get in the gym and commit. 6 days a week: upper / lower / arms, repeat. 1 full rest day. Do this for 6 straight months minimum. Build strength, durability, and discipline. Second the baseball work has to be intentional. Hit 5–6x/week with a plan. Not just swinging… purposeful reps. Work with a coach who gives you structure, routine, and adjustments. Then put in the REAL work on your own. Extra swings. Extra reps. Extra time. This part matters: You are NOT going to develop at practice alone. High school, travel, even college practice isn’t enough. The jump happens in the hours nobody sees. Third fuel your body like an athlete. Eat enough protein to recover and build strength. Hydrate consistently. Add electrolytes. Recovery = performance. If your body breaks down, so does your progress. Fourth train your mind daily. Read 1 chapter a day: •Heads Up Baseball 2.0 •The Alchemist •The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success •The Four Agreements •It’s All in Your Head You need mental toughness to handle failure, pressure, and long stretches with no visible results. That’s part of it. Now tie it all together: Training + reps + nutrition + mindset. Do ALL of it consistently. Then do it for 3–5 years. No shortcuts. No skipping steps. Keep your head down. Stay obsessed with getting better—not being seen. The results will come if the work is real. If you want a clear plan + mentorship on exactly how to do this, reach out. Hitters University

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15,830 views • 3 months ago

As a senior sign. I had regular ABs 2 times during my career in MiLB. ‘19 & ‘22. During that stretch in 146 games played had 156 hits & slashed .295 , 34 Doubles, 5 3Bs, 15 Home Runs, 90 RBIs, Fielded near .1000 at multiple positions. 👍 Looking to play this upcoming season.
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As a senior sign. I had regular ABs 2 times during my career in MiLB. ‘19 & ‘22. During that stretch in 146 games played had 156 hits & slashed .295 , 34 Doubles, 5 3Bs, 15 Home Runs, 90 RBIs, Fielded near .1000 at multiple positions. 👍 Looking to play this upcoming season.

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67,146 views • 2 years ago

You should play travel baseball for the coach & development. Not to win 12 or 13u tournaments! Hitters University
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You should play travel baseball for the coach & development. Not to win 12 or 13u tournaments! Hitters University

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23,629 views • 11 months ago