51 - Steve Springer; Quality At Bats Academy

Steve Springer

Bio

Steve Springer is the former performance coach & major league scout for the Toronto Blue Jays.

After not starting in high-school his SR year, getting cut in college, Springer was drafted by the Mets after a breakout junior season.

After years in the minor leagues, Steve eventually collected his first major league hit with the New York Mets.

Steve played over 14 years as a professional baseball player and compiled over 1,600 professional hits.

Over 35 years in professional baseball as a baseball player, agent and scout.

He now travels and speaks across the country about the mental side of hitting while working and training with major league all-stars.

He resides in Huntington Beach CA, and is the author of Quality At-Bats and the founder of Quality At-Bats Academy.

NOTES

• Take BP, infield like it is the game
• If you want to play at the next level you have to hit
• What is athleticism? Hand/eye coordination
• Your career starts the day when you don’t care what you hit
• Change the way you think
• Play everyday like its opening day, no yesterday beating you up!
• Two good players, the confident player and the non confident player
• Clint Hurdle put a Q on the lineup card for a quality at bat
• Hitting starts when you pick up the paper in the morning, and you start visualizing the pitcher and what he is going to do
• I can’t have a goal where I do everything right and get out.
• Changed what the definition of success
  • I am hear to help my team win ball game
• 90% of the quality at bat is how I walk up to the plate 
• The most quality at bats - got best buy gift cards
• Good hitters line out hard more!
• The batting average has no brain
• The only stat I want to track is how many games in a row you can show up with confidence
• You don’t get 5 at bats, you get 27 at bats, look at other players at bats
• Sit fastball, until you don’t have to
• Controlled violent swing
• Your not too small to get good grades
• The harder the pitcher throws, the slower the feet need to move
• Power is overrated if you can’t hit
• Infielders thinking missiles hitting to us everytime
• Best athlete heart beat is between 60-80
• Its not a 3 hour timeout
• Pitchers compete with mentality of 9 vs 1 and I got a great defense behind me
• If you ever tick off the umpire - now its 9 versus 2
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