Improving your skills at the plate can be done by batting off of a tee. Of course, the objective for this drill is to get the baseball bat from a comfortable resting point to the point of contact as efficiently and as accurately as possible. The ball is always put at the ideal point of contact in the strike for an inside, down the middle, or outside pitch. Undeniably, this will train your muscles to remember the right swing for those various points of contact because it is something that should be done religiously everyday. You will develop an excellent, but more important a consistent swing. Being set up in a position to hit the pitch squarely will be automatic.

Placing the tee at every point in the strike zone is very important to truly benefit from the drill. Remember, when practicing to hit the ball to opposite fields, you want to let the pitch travel further into the hitting zone before making contact. That is why you place the tee on the back portion of the plate. Set the tee right over the plate to simulate a pitch down the middle and practice hitting the ball straight up the middle toward the pitcher. The ideais to get a good feel for your swing directed at any type of pitch anywhere in the strike.

When adjusting the elevation of the tee you should change it back and forth from high to low, enabling your body and hands to feel the various points of correct contact. Typically, you want to raise the tee as high as possible in your strike zone because it will train you to keep your hands up and 'strong' throughout your swing. It can help to avoid any unwanted dropping of the hands and back shoulder. Imagine your shoulders as an 'airplane' trying to land. You would want the wings of the plane to remain level as you hit the runway and it is the same for your shoulders when swinging at a baseball. If you find yourself hitting the tee at all or popping the ball up off the tee, it is an indicator that you are dropping your hands or shoulder or both.