See First

If you can't see it, you can't hit it. Close your eyes and hop in the batter's box and tell me how that works out for you. I believe we generally always see the ball, how well is the question. Do you train your eyes? If you don't I suggest that you do. There are many ways, you can even use visualization to help train your eyes. Tee work, side toss, front toss, batting practice are all opportunities to help you see. If you don't focus on seeing well in the cage you won't see well games.

Part of how I try to teach the vision part is by having my hitters let their eyes tell them when to swing. Sometimes they are still early or late but they usually end up telling me their adjustments before I tell them. The other thing that happens when you focus on seeing the ball well is build the oneness between the eyes and hands. I view the hands and eyes as one unit. They work well together if you let them. Like I said before, close your eyes and hop in the batter's box and you have no chance.

In the end we can swing at we see or keep guessing and thinking. It's ok to think but reserve the thinking for stepping in and out of the batter's box. Once you step into the box, see first and the rest will take care of itself. When it comes to hitting its better to see or than anticipate. Anticipation can bring success as well but have to be careful how you anticipate. I'll talk about anticipation in a couple weeks.