Bat-R-Ups Kris Kaplan gets 1st
college hit at UNLV. Kaplan has been a hitting
client of coach al for 4 years. He was also a
client of Coach Bucks in his college placement
program and took a full ride to attend UNLV.
Kaplan was also the team leader in hitting on
the Las Vegas Summer Baseball Club in the summer
of 2009 and will return to club in the summer of
2010. We wish him the best of luck at UNLV in
his first full college season.
Packages are
now available for viewing at the Baseball Web TV
website for the Bat-R-Up event.
BaseballwebTV will video this
years event. Click the logo above for details. Each player will get a clip that
will be posted both on our site and their site
for 1000's of scouts to see. They will be
putting together a special package just for our
players soon.
12-29-2009 -
Coach Buck spent the weekend working the San
Diego State Christmas Camp. The video is a small
piece from SDSU Head Coach and Baseball Hall of
Fame Tony Gwynn's philosophy on hitting. Coach
Buck said "WOW! What a great experience it was
to participate in the camp!"
11-11-09 - Baseball America: California
Collegiate League will expand to a 7 team league
and one of the new teams will be the Las Vegas
Summer Baseball Club!
Southern Nevada’s
finest year-round indoor baseball & softball
training facility is dedicated to fulfilling the
needs of players of all ages and abilities. Bat
R Up is a state of the art indoor baseball
training facility that includes indoor batting
tunnels, coin-operated batting cages, a pro
shop, batting stations and the most experienced
instructors in Southern Nevada.
Bat R Up offers
comprehensive clinics throughout the year for
players ages 5-17. These clinics emphasize
fundamental improvement for young players and
advance training for older players. All clinics
are designed to enhance their skills and to gain
a competitive advantage. Participation is
limited to assure quality instruction.
Bat R Up offers
individualized, year-round professional baseball
instruction. Our staff uses a uniform
step-by-step teaching system to encourage
positive progress with all our students.
The Bat R Up instruction staff is made up of
former and current professional players, college
standouts and area high school graduates.
Bat R Up’s
token-operated baseball and softball batting
cages are available to the public on a walk-in
basis any time during the facility's hours of
operation. The machines allow hitters to select
pitching speeds ranging from 35 to 75 miles per
hour. Our coin-operated batting cages allow you
to choose between baseball or softball pitches
with a variety of different speeds.
Bat R Up’s multi-use
tunnels can be rented in 15-minute intervals.
Each tunnel is suitable for individual or team
hitting instruction or practice.
Our training area
allows players to fine tune their hitting skills
or work on drills they have learned during a
private lesson. The room is equipped with
training aids such as tees, ball bins for
soft-toss and pitching mounds for pitching
instruction.
TEAM BAT-R-UP
CORPORATE SPONSORS
Little
League Information
Sunday March 14th
we will hold 1hour clinics 50 participants
maximum per session...FOR FREE
TIME SLOTS
ARE...
9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 12 pm on first come basis.
All aspects of the game will be covered:
Hitting, Bunting, Fielding (infield and
outfield), Pitching and Catching.
Local little league players will be instructed
by Buck Thomas, Pro Scout for The Los
Angeles Angels, and Al Ramirez Pro Scout
for The Major League Scouting Bureau.
Bat R Up is
happy to continue its effort toward the success
of all Little League teams
offering discounted
team rates, discounted
team lessons,
and as always, free
cage time for the District 4
All-Star Champions from every age division.
Click to our
Little League page
to get all your updated information and to
navigate to your league page for sign-up dates.
2010 Todd Gamboa Memorial Camp
The 3rd Annual camp was the
BEST ever! Click HERE
fordetails
#4 Ranked
CSN Was In Full Force at Bat-R-Up
1-22-10 - The nationally ranked
Coyotes came in out of the rain to train at Las
Vegas's premier Indoor baseball facility. CSN
was able to get their pitchers bullpens using
Bat-R-Up's three dirt mounds and had all fifteen
tunnels going getting plenty of swings to
prepare for their upcoming season opener on
January 29th. Head Coach Tim Chambers praised
the staff stating, "It was huge that Bat-R-Up
opened their doors so we would not lose another
day of practice". Coach Chambers went on to say
that Bat-R-Up was the best facility he has seen.
Carter also earned the A's Player of the Year
honor for the second year in a row and nabbed
Texas League MVP laurels as well.
Adding in his numbers from a brief Triple-A
debut at Sacramento at season's end, Carter's
final stat line reads .329, 28 homers and 115
RBIs in 138 games. He led the Minors with 179
hits, tied for the Minor League lead in total
bases (310), ranked second in RBIs and
extra-base hits and finished third in runs
scored.
He achieved all of this at age 22, leading
the Oakland system as well in doubles (43),
walks (85) and slugging (.570).
Buck Thomas and Bat R Up College Placement a
Huge Success
Updated 2/22/2010
MORE BAT-R-UP
CLIENTS FIND COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Nick Bata and Dyllon Hansen of Faith
Lutheran have accepted scholarships to attend
Otero Junior College in the fall of 2010.
Billy Bob Ward and Christian Centrella
both seniors at Palo Verde HS took visits this
past weekend to Concordia University. They were
able to watch Bat-R-Up and College Placement
Client Sam Lindsay get his 1st college
victory on the mound throwing 5 solid innings.
Lindsay was relieved on the mound by another
College Placement Client Dan Levine of
Green valley High School.
In addition, Joey Rickard and Stephen
Manthei also had great success opening
weekend. Both were placed at the University Of
Arizona (D-1) By Coach Buck. Rickard was 6 for 9
including a 3-run home run while starting in CF
for the Wildcats. Manthei threw 4 2/3 innings of
shutout baseball.
R.J. Santigate, who was placed at Long
Beach State by Coach Buck, was a starter opening
weekend as a freshman for the Dirtbags. As well
as Paul Sewald, Mike Dedrick, and
Sam Wolff who all saw time on the mound
for the University of San Diego (D-1) in the
opening series against Indiana State. All were
placed by Coach Buck at USD.
At the highest
level, baseball training revolves around strength
conditioning, speed training and flexibility training.
Successful baseball players also use Plyometrics and
specific lifts to increase their upper and lower body
power. Physical training has become a lost method and
deemed unnecessary to many coaches during their
practices, as many coaches perceive strength
conditioning as detrimental to the needed motor skills
required by players.
Modern day baseball
players are great ball players, but even better
athletes. Professional players tend to be lean and
extremely quick. And studies have shown that
baseball-specific programs can significantly increase
production by the common baseball player.
Power training - through
Plyometrics (a type of exercise training designed to
produce fast, powerful movements) or Ballistics (the
science that deals with the motion, behavior) can
increase a baseball player's speed and agility. It can
also improve throwing and batting velocity much more
than the garden variety weight training done in a weight
room.
Shoulder injuries tend to
be a major concern in baseball, as pitching places an
inordinate amount of stress on the shoulder complex. And
while strength conditioning can help prevent such
injuries, traditional weight lifting exercises may not
be suitable in targeting the correct muscles or the
correct movement patterns. At Bat R Up, special
exercises are easily adopted into a baseball training
program to help significantly reduce the risk of overuse
damage.
Check our
INSTRUCTION
page for more details, and contact us at 647-3844 to
book your lesson.
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