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.
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- 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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