Order | Roles, Expectations, & Priorities |
1
| - Be willing to take some pitches so your team can gather info about the pitcher.
- Comfortable hitting behind in the count.
- Be a good bunter (sac and base hit) & be willing to do it at any time.
- Get on base
- Line drives and ground balls
- Good, smart, aggressive base runner
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2 | - Be willing to take pitches for your team and so that the leadoff guy can steal
- Comfortable hitting behind in the count.
- Get on base
- Line drives and ground balls
- Aggressive with runners in scoring position
- Move runners up – bunt, hitting to RF, etc.
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3 | - Drive in runs
- More aggressive! Especially early in the count and with runners on base
- Less emphasis on just getting on & moving runners
- Hits gap to gap / Line drives
- Usually the best hitter on the team.
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4 | |
5 | - Same as 3 & 4 hitters
- Ideally, this is a hitter who is a good bat also so the opposition thinks twice about pitching around the 4th hitter.
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6 | |
7 | - Get on base
- Be a good bunter and be willing to do it.
- Aggressive with runners on base.
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8 | |
9 | - Ideally, this hitter is similar to the #1 hitter
- Good eye for the strike zone
- A tough out.
- Good Sac bunter
- Aggressive with runners in scoring position
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