Understanding how to play defense within a team concept is one of the many benefits to becoming an active member of a Carolina Elite Baseball team.  Team practices, individual instruction, and baseball camps/clinics will help increase your physical skills.  That is only part of the process to becoming a better baseball player, however! Actual game experience under quality coaching is the only way to learn critical team skills, both offensively and defensively.  Those members who join under the team membership plan will learn these invaluable team defensive skills including:

Bunt Defenses

• Nobody on Base

• Runner on 1st

• Runner on 2nd (or 1st and 2nd)

• Bunt Trap/Lead Runner (called the "wheel")

• Wheel Pick (and why this play works even if you don't pick the runner off!!!)

Outfield throwing responsibilities

• Why outfielders need to hit their cutoff man (it has nothing to do with the runner you are trying to throw out)

• When outfielders don't need to hit their cutoff man

• Throwing to a tandem/double cut

Cutoffs/Relays

• Which infielders are responsible for the different cutoffs and relays

• What is a tandem/double cut, and when/why do you use it

• How to execute your cutoff responsibilities without verbal communication

Pickoffs

Diamondbacks 3B Chad Tracy in 1999 game vs Richmond

• LHP Quick Picks

• LHP Readers

• LHP Predetermined

• Balk Moves

• Daylights

• Inside Moves

• 31's / 53's

1st and 3rd Defense

• Forced Balks

• 31's / 53's

• Stink Play

Defensive Positioning

• No Doubles

• Take it Away

• Double Play Depth

• Pull Side Shifts

• Big Infield

• Holding Runners

• 5 Man Infield