Tips on improving outfield footwork and reading fly balls

You can also buddy up with teammates, head to the field and take turns hitting each other reps.  You can youtube some good OF drills and mechanics.  ABCA stuff is always solid.

Ball over brim of cap you must "open the gate" that means if it is to your left your left foot should drop taking your left shoulder away from home plate.  Same move on balls hit to your right except it is right foot dropping.  

If ball is below brim of cap hold your ground or step forward toward ball.

Know your field.... for Corner outfielders the ball will bend toward the line.  Center fielders have to play slice and hook.  Left hand hitter to left field gap will slice to LF line.  In Right Center it will hook to RF line.  Vice versa for RH hitters.

Get reps.  Find someone that can hit fungos and get 100 balls 4 or 5X a week in summer.  Balls can be it from middle of infield but reps matter.  Also take balls in sun field to get used to playing the glare.

Above all eliminate backpeddling.  If you do you get off balance and the "dance of death" will ensue where you get twisted around and almost always botch the play.

Last suggestion...learn to run without "bouncing"  That is the sensation you will have if you get too much jostling as you run which will happen if you let your heels pound the ground as you run.  Run on balls of your feet and learn to track ball with focus so it doesn't "bounce" as you run.

Here's what I've done to bring  new HS outfielders up to speed on fly balls:  Set up a two-wheel pitching machine to shoot 300 foot very-high fly balls.  It's best to use leather baseballs with torn seams, which randomly hook or slice. (Torn seams, not torn covers.)

When our regular BP balls get torn seams, I save them in a bucket for this purpose.