Batting Cage Routine

Here is what I like to do.

Note: on all of these, don't simply hit into the net - back up at least 20 or 30 feet from the net so you can see the trajectory of the ball.

Round 1: Normal up the middle off of tee.
Round 2: Load + hold drill. Sometimes I have trouble getting my front foot down in time. This drill is simply getting into my load position and taking my step, firmly planting on the ground, then waiting a second before completing the swing phase of my swing.
Round 3: Walk up drill. Stand approx. 5-10 feet behind the tee, then just initiate the forward movement towards the tee by stepping behind your front foot with your back foot, and then land your front foot down and swing with all the momentum. Builds some nice power and athletisism in swing.
Round 4: 3 tee drill. Set up 3 tees, all on the same plane, and all in the same horizontal plane. Put balls on all three of them, and try to hit all of the balls off the tee. The point is to have the bat head in the zone for as long as possible.
Round 5: Skater drill. This is sort of hard to explain. Hopefully this makes sense. Take 3 back and forth lateral-plyometric jumps, then land on the 4th on your back foot, then come down with your front foot, and swing off the tee.
Round 6: Normal tee - 3 balls in each of the 9 spots of the plate.
Round 7: Normal tee - up the middle.

Hope this helps.

I always like drills to be as simple as possible. If it were me, I would have one tee simulate a pitch right down the middle, one tee simulate an inside pitch, one for an outside pitch, and the last one for another down the middle. While specialty drills like spartans2b mentions are very important to keep things fresh and to focus on different specific aspects of hitting, especially if there aren't a lot of coaches watching and correcting fundamental mistakes, it's best to keep it as simple as possible in my opinion. Best of luck!

We use 3 different workouts in the cage, all on different days and rotated. I agree with keeping it simple and concentrating on tee work.

Day 1: Heavy Day - starts with hitting the heavy bag, moves to hitting basketballs off the tee, moves to tee work, finishing with a light live pitch workout. This is all done with his 34" wood bat. Goal here is increase strength.

Day 2: Medium Day - starts with one hand drills. Two buckets with each hand using a 31/28 aluminum bat. Moves to a lighter tee workout and on to live pitch with the wood bat. Goal here is to center every pitch.

Day 3: Light/speed day - starts with tee work with the 31/28 aluminum bat concentrating on increasing bat speed. LOTS of reps here. Moves on to live pitch concentraing on taking the increased swing speed to the plate.

Tee work involves moving the tee to all 9 hitting zones throughout each workout. On strength days we do alot of high tee work.