COACH LESSON 14 OF 16 • DECISION
Lesson 14: Teaching Anticipation: Expect, See, Confirm
From the Off-Speed Masterclass — Coach Edition with BK, for baseball and fastpitch softball coaches. Lines up with Player Lesson 14: Anticipate, Then Confirm.
Learning Objective
By the end of this lesson your hitters can state a one-sentence plan built on the count and a tendency, punish the pitch they expected or take the one they didn’t, recognize a setup sequence, and win plate appearances on process in the Decision Test, and you can see it.
About 30 minutes, plus the practice plan with your hitters.
What to Teach
“Anticipate the likely pitch. React to the actual pitch.” Anticipation is a plan built on probability, not a blind guess. A hitter can sit on a likely heater or a…
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