Pay attention to what your hitters are doing when nobody is telling them what to do. That's how you know who they really are ...

5. Practice Under Simulated Pressure You can't overcome game fear if you never practice with it. Create consequences in training—run sprints for weak contact, compete for lineup spots in live ABs. When pressure becomes familiar in practice, games feel less foreign.

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4. Shrink the Threat Your brain thinks this at-bat determines everything. It doesn't. One pitch. One swing. That's it. The smaller the moment feels, the less threatening it becomes. "Just this pitch" is manageable. "The whole season depends on this" isn't.

3. Breathe to Reconnect Brain and Body When fear hits, tension follows immediately. Two deep belly breaths in the on-deck circle literally re-establishes the brain-body connection. Exhale longer than you inhale. This isn't woo-woo—it's physiology.

2. Anchor to Your Training Fear makes you forget what you know. Before each at-bat, recall ONE specific thing you crushed in practice—a swing that felt effortless, a pitch you demolished. Your body remembers. Remind your brain it's done this before.

1. Reframe the Environment The batter's box isn't a place where bad things happen to you—it's where you get to DO something. Shift from "What if I fail?" to "I get to compete." Name it out loud before you step in: "This is my opportunity."

Fear tenses you up and disconnects your brain from your body. You forget everything you trained for. See the field as safe, not threatening, or your skills won't show up when it counts.

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College Coach: I don't like her swing. Me: But she can hit though. Can you not teach a swing?

It is the coach who must adjust to the player -not the other way around.

okay, now that you think your swing is perfect, it's time to learn how to hit

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talent is never enough

Self-talk could be how hitters can cue themselves into better movements patterns.

We don't necessarily control our thoughts but we are certainly responsible for whatever thoughts we agree with.

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