High School Baseball Practice Plan Template.

Streamline your team's development with this comprehensive, easy-to-use template. Designed for high school coaches, it covers warm-ups, drills, scrimmages, situations, and cooldowns, ensuring efficient and effective practices.

All coaches dream of winning a state championship. To win it all, you must have "dudes" and some luck. But you can get the most out of your team and win a District Championship or at the very least make the playoffs.

No matter what title you win, they all have one thing in common . . . a good practice template. And that is what I will share with you today.

High School Baseball Practice Plan Template

Texas high school baseball state championship games are played in Round Rock.  To visualize my goal I created a practice plan to get us there. This template had many revisions but what I am giving you today is the final and best baseball practice template.

Since games in Texas are played on Tuesday and Friday nights, I created a weekly practice plan where the team would get quality work on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

High School Baseball Practice Plan Template

Monday

• Stretching – the best way to avoid pulled muscles is to go through your stretching before any workout.

• Concentration drill – shutting everything out – no distractions – keep everything in front of you and in perspective.

• Running – ¾ sprints, poles, or squares

• Throwing – pitchers with pitchers or with catchers. Catchers with catchers or with pitchers. Infielders with infielders. Outfielders with outfielders.

• Warm-up drills – warm-up drills for infielders, outfielders, pitchers, and catchers.

• Group simulation – infielders, outfielders, pitchers, and catchers.

• Position simulation – covers any and everything that can happen in a game. Individual effort.

• Multiple Defensive Workout – outfielders together with their coach. Infielders at their positions, pitchers on the mound, and catchers behind the plate.

• Outfield / Infield Workout – pregame workout. In practice, outfielders throw to all bases and put in all situations.

• Hitting and bunting practice.

• Offensive Signs

Tuesday - Game

Wednesday

• Stretching – the best way to avoid pulled muscles is to go through your stretching before any workout.

• Concentration drill – shutting everything out – no distractions – keep everything in front of you and in perspective.

• Running – ¾ sprints, poles, or squares

• Throwing – pitchers with pitchers or with catchers. Catchers with catchers or with pitchers. Infielders with infielders. Outfielders with outfielders.

• Defensive signs.

• Base running – all bases – all situations – steals with catcher throwing

• Pick off plays – all bases and situations

• Hit and Run – set the pitching screen to the side of first base

• Squeeze, sacrifice, and slash drill.

• Bunt Defense – all bases and situations

• Defending Special Situations – man on first and third, infield fly rule, etc.

• Hitting
  

Thursday

• Stretching – the best way to avoid pulled muscles is to go through your stretching before any workout.

• Concentration drill – shutting everything out – no distractions – keep everything in front of you and in perspective.

• Running – ¾ sprints, poles, or squares

• Throwing – pitchers with pitchers or with catchers. Catchers with catchers or with pitchers. Infielders with infielders. Outfielders with outfielders.

• Warm-up drills – warm-up drills for infielders, outfielders, pitchers, and catchers.

• Group simulation – infielders, outfielders, pitchers, and catchers.

• Position simulation – covers any and everything that can happen in a game. Individual effort.

• Multiple Defensive Workout – outfielders together with their coach. Infielders at their positions, pitchers on the mound, and catchers behind the plate.

• Outfield / Infield Workout – pregame workout. In practice, outfielders throw to all bases and put in all situations.

• Hitting and bunting practice.

• OF Sits / IF DPs (Live)

• Fly Ball Communication

Friday - Game

What about the pitchers?

I will write a blog post soon and email it if you are a blog post subscriber.

If you can't wait and want more details on how to practice your JV and Varsity pitching staff at the same time, I have created:

Pitching Program for High School Players - Complete and detailed developmental pitching program

Closing Thoughts

You have multiple objectives that you can cover using this practice plan.  You do not have to cover them all at each practice, but you have to touch on them consistently every other week.

Each of my practices lasted between 1 - 2.5 hours.

I would plan practice based on the following criteria:

1. What part of the season we are in?

2. Did we play the night before at home or on the road?

3. Were we heading to a tournament?

4. What is the physical and mental health of the team?

5. What are the current weather conditions?

6. What are the predicted weather conditions?

7. What school events or holidays are coming up?

I used to plan my weekly practice schedule every Sunday afternoon when my mind was clear.

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