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[quote=Anonymous]I was a college baseball player that grew up in the area. I'm realizing that I might have been a bit of an outlier for my age, but I took the winter to do tons of tee work in the basement. One can put the ball in all different areas of the zone and see how your swing works. There isn't any velo from a pitch for you to run into something by accident, so you really have to have your swing synced up to get that loud sound. And I figured out what location of pitches were my turbo zone.

Then when pitchers started throwing bullpens indoors I would stand in for dry swings (no bat) and just track pitches. It would build an ongoing memory bank of what pitches looked like and where they ended up, without any swings and that made it easier to concentrate.

But I realize this might not be very "fun" for a 14-15 y/o compared to hitting the field in Pensacola in January.

But I was also the 9 year old manipulating the family satellite dish to find baseball games to record certain players swings (on VHS and low def!).

And I whole heartedly agree with others that the winter break is good physically but especially mentally to avoid burnout. That's a real thing even in this region.[/quote]

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