Better Men, Better Ballplayers

51 - Steve Springer; Quality At Bats Academy

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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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