What is casting in a baseball swing?
Casting means the barrel leaves the hands early and travels a long way before contact. Coaches fix it by keeping the hands close to the body, which they call staying inside the ball, so the barrel takes a shorter path. The videos explain it and show drills for it.
What it looks like: The hands and the barrel push out away from the body early, so the swing goes around the ball and is late on pitches inside.
3 videos
Baseball Hitting Drill To Stay Inside The Ball Staying inside the ball How to STOP Casting Hands & Fix Your Baseball Swing (MLB player shares secrets)
Where these videos come from
- Antonelli Baseball: Matt Antonelli, a first-round draft pick who played in the major leagues for the San Diego Padres.
- MLB Network: Major League Baseball’s TV network; in its Diamond Demos, former players show how it is done.
- Jermaine Curtis: Jermaine Curtis, a former major-league infielder.
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