The drill that tells you if your hitter is really loaded
Most hitters look fine in the cage. The tee doesn't lie, but it doesn't ask any hard questions either.
Here's one that does.
The fake that exposes bad timing
Set up a normal front toss round. Somewhere in it, the tosser fakes the release and holds the ball.
Watch what the hitter does.
If he stays loaded and balanced, he's controlling his body and waiting on the pitch. If he lunges, drifts forward, or unloads onto his front side, he was never really loaded. He was guessing on timing and getting away with it because the ball kept showing up when he expected it.
That's the same hitter who looks great in the cage and gets beat by a changeup on Saturday.
Why more swings won't fix it
The answer isn't volume. It's teaching the hitter to load early and fire late, so timing lives in his lower half instead of his hands.
That takes strength. You can't hold a load your body isn't strong enough to hold, which is why every Homebase plan pairs timing work with strength and mobility work instead of treating them as separate projects.
Try it this week. Two or three fakes in a round, no warning. What you see in those two seconds tells you more than a whole bucket of good swings.
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