On inside pitches try striding towards 3b. Will allow you to open your hips and get your bat inside the ball.

Otherwise grab a tee and learn how to get your hands inside on the ball.

Anything low and away I can pretty much flick a liner anywhere from second base to the right field line at will.

- Go through your process and remember how your arms are extended with that swing, especially with those line drives.

On the inside pitch I feel like I ground the ball to the shortstop all the time. Don't know if I am as bad with the high ball (I stand real far back in the box) but I am much better at turning the low ball into base hits

- Now take that swing / arm extension, but picture it hitting an inside pitch or high inside. This time connect with the intent to take off the shortstops head. Make sure you are not trying to hit a ground ball. Now if you are early, you will have room and it will go down the 3rd. If you are late, it will go up the middle. If you cut it right, it will go in the gap. If you cut it right and get enough of the ball - it will go over the fence.

Side note, do yourself a favor. When in a game (and winning isn't a concern), swing at the first high or inside pitch you see. Don't sit on that low outside pitch you always want. In the end, if you don't practice/do it in the game - it will never get better.

HTH

Long swing. My favorite way to fix this tendency is to get on the tee, place the ball where an inside pitch would be, try to hit the ball up the middle. This forces your mechanics to tighten up and practices staying inside the ball by clearing your hips and hands. It feels awkward as hell, but it fucking works.

usually guys in softball that can only hit low and/or away pitches have a loopy swing. Watch the swing makeover series on youtube and switch to a softball swing that emphasizes oversnap. Your bat path should be at a slightly up angle to drive through the ball. There is an episode called the "perfect snap" that will get you used to what it's supposed to feel like.

I find that I roll over to the shortstop or pitcher when I stop pulling with conviction. I just try to hit the inside pitch, I roll over. If I try to really go with the pitch and pull it (down the line or through the five/six hole) I tend to get much better contact.

Try to think “hit the inside pitch up the middle” and it’ll stay on plane and pull to the left center gap instead of hooking foul or top-spinning down the line

Can't tell from this angle, so just check to make sure your swing path is in to out (I'm guessing it is). Also check your body isn't drifting towards to plate.

If so, then hitting the inside pitch is just timing for you. Hit it out in front of the plate (as opposed to about at the plate like with an outside pitch)

I think you need to be more direct to the inside pitch with a flatter swing plane. You're coming in a bit too uppercut-y, which leaves you a very tiny window to properly square up that pitch. Like others have said, you need to hit the pullside pitches out in front of the plate.

The new wave of attacking launch angle gives you a lot less room for error bc of the swing plane. I guess I'm old school bc I cringe when I see teacherman type swings and teachings. That swing works for power hitters who can sacrifice precision for attacking the air, you're better off keeping your swing as flat as possible, imo

keep your front side closed longer and go get the inside pitch a little further in front of your body. throw your hands before you rotate pull side

my son is a lefty pull hitter. one thing he worked on for inside pitches, aside from getting ahead, was making sure his left shoulder stays closed at point of contact. looks like your left shoulder is opening up early in the swing. not sure if this helps.

Another remember. Mark Prior used to do a cool exercise where he worked on his whole delivery but primarily his release point. He would hold a medium sized towel in place of the ball and get to work on "whipping" the towel using his wrist snap. Yes, the kind of whip that you do to your friends in the locker room with a wet towel. That drill always stuck with me.

Flat ground pitching is a good way to work on mechanics. Get your distance right, go through your full windup or stretch, work on your slide step, work on peeking at runners, varying your timing etc. and you don't need a mound...but you do still need someone to crouch.

Anytime I'm throwing with a pitcher even if they don't want to throw a pen I will make them throw me some pitches from the appropriate distance on flat ground just so they can ingrain that memory into their muscles.

You can work on arm strength using heavy balls.

Rockers.

Yes! There’s a whole lot of drills that are great for working on mechanics! From ten toes drill, walking wind ups, pivot picks, etc. there are great ways to teach the components of a high velocity delivery. I’d suggest looking at Tread Athletics YouTube, they have a whole host of videos on different drills tailored towards fixing different mechanical inefficiencies.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=27PBI8kil7o&pp=ygUfaGlwIHNob3VsZGVyIHNlcGFyYXRpb24gaGl0dGluZ9IHCQl-CQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

Pause drill. You are gonna use a tee, step towards the pitcher in your load, but pause. Count 1,2 and you should feel the backside tension wanting to release.

Had a timing issue at the beginning of my MSBL season. Added a leg kick to increase my power, which made me a great BP hitter (actual home run power, which I’ve never had) but an awful game hitter. Stuck with it the first 5 games. Went from a .423 hitter with .480 obp last year (no stride at all) to a .150 hitter with like 1 walk in 20 abs.

The leg kick clearly caused a timing issue and just made things too complicated for me (plus there were other issues like I was moving my head a lot and couldn’t pick up the ball well, etc etc). Worked my way back to where I took a small stride instead of no stride and finished the season really strong.

Recommendation would be simplify and shorten up. Drills might help a little, but you can throw it all away once you get in a game situation, especially against unusually high velo. Examine your approach after each game AB and you will figure it out.

Don’t psych yourself out. It’s just another fastball. If it’s a four seam it tends to not have any run on it. It’s the easiest pitch in baseball to hit. As for drills I would consider just trying to see more of the high velo stuff.

First things first... Can he throw his heat for a strike regularly? If he can, lay off anything not a fastball. Don't feel like you have to swing at it just because it's slower.

Also, gear up to hit pitches where the perceived velocity is lower.

One thing many young players don’t realize when facing good velo is that you don’t have to swing harder. Other than doing some high velo BP, nothing too different to prep.

When you face them, start your load a little earlier, look for a fat pitch to hit, then be short to it and stay through it.

If you’re struggling to catch up, try to focus on getting a low pitch to hit. Since pitches lower in the zone have to travel further, you’ll have a better chance to catch up to it.

Also, if the pitcher throws good off-speed stuff, I’d recommend guess hitting until you get 2 strikes. Guess Fastball or off speed based on what you see the pitcher throwing other hitters in various counts. If you get the other kind of pitch, lay off and get the next one.

You are doing everything but throwing him pitches from the mound.

Stop all the drills...the open stance doesn't happen in a game drill, the hit a tire that doesnt exist in a game drill, the side toss that doesn't happen in the game drill, and take the bucket 45 ft away and have at it.

The less accurate you are (within reason) the better.

All skill development boils down to:

“Do the thing”

Live reps on a field if possible. Simulate a real at bat.

The problem with those drills is you groove a swing which is completely different for how a real at bat works.

Quality of the reps > quantity of reps

Say what you want about travel ball but the reason the kids are so much better than when I played was the see a ton of live action.

Honestly I went through this last year. The more reps he's getting the better from live pitching. It's the only way he'll start to connect his body movement with the swing and start to feel comfortable again. It took a bit for my son to feel that way, and then his first 7 at bats he got plunked....set us back a few weeks haha. But he's in there strong now and ready to give it a whack.

He just needs to see more live arm, it’s the only true fix. You can simulate the best you can in the cage by throwing live arm yourself and try to match speeds he sees in game. I’m 6’2 so I’ll sit in a chair behind an L screen at about 40 feet and throw to him.

Don’t get rid of the drill work he’s doing, just mix in some live arm in the cage and let him get more game reps. He will get there!

I was a catcher in college and without someone to actually train you; you need to watch and find videos of professional catchers throw downs and things like that and emulate what they do.. watch the videos in slow mo get into those same positions. first thing immediately noticeable is you need to have a shorter arm path; think about pulling a bow and arrow back? Good luck kid

Your arm path is wayyy too long. When you pop, you want your throwing arm to “pop” to behind your ear at the same time. You want to get the the top of your throwing motion as quickly as possible.

https://youtu.be/PtAC0oZBdZI?si=_LJkCj2-X5uJkOSK

Dropping your throwing hand too low after you grab the ball. Should be coming out of the glove, back to near your ear, and fire that ball straight from the ear. Eliminate that big swoop with your arm.

Too long of windup, try to work on receiving the throw and bringing it up near the ear and explode forward using body weight

Echoing what most people are saying, he’s clearly doing too much of a windup. The catch, pop, and throw all have to be a very fluid motion. It definitely takes a lot of time being comfortable behind the plate to get to. I would say try to have him practice catching the ball and then popping up with his hand already up and cocked. Then have him throw to second with one step, no wind up or hop. Hopefully doing that enough you can do it all together to get a fluid motion. I was also told once by a former (minor league) pro that throwing a football can be a good way to learn a more compact motion since you don’t normally wind up with that as much as baseball guys do.

At the end of the day, he’s still young and just needs to be confident he can make the throw to second easily. Make sure to do plenty lower body workouts to help with popup time and give him a solid base, but it’ll come with time and practice.

Swing looks pretty good overall.  Not much coil/load with your lower half.  I'd start there and make small adjustments based on what results you are getting in games