How to Become a Pro Baseball Player

Series Summary

Baseball is a sport played with a bat and a ball. In baseball, there are two teams of nine players each, and the goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged 90 feet apart at the corners of a diamond. Offensive players take turns hitting, while the defense tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in a number of different ways. A player on offense can stop at any of the bases and try to score on a teammate's hit ball. The teams switch between offense and defense whenever the team on defense records three outs. One turn on offense for each team makes an inning, and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game is the winner. In this free video series, a baseball instructor demonstrates a number of baseball tips and tricks that will help baseball players prepare for higher levels of play. Start with the equipment; breaking in and restringing baseball gloves ensures that a baseball player will be as good as their skills and effort. These skills can be honed, however, by improving bat speed, developing greater batting strength and learning how to throw a variety of pitches, including sinkers and gyroballs.

Video Transcript

"The questions asked how to become a professional baseball player. Well that's a wide ranging answer for that question, or there is a wide ranging area but first, you have to become a proficient baseball player in several different areas. Number one you have to have a strong throwing arm. Accurate and strong throwing arm. You need to have foot speed. You should be able to run the sixty yard dash in something around seven as a maximum. You also need to be able to hit with power and hit with a consistency and also be able to be a proficient fielder. Once you are proficient in all of those areas, it becomes necessary for you to be in a position where a professional scout can see you and then either draft you in a professional draft, or sign you as a free agent. That could be done by attending various professional try outs or getting on a high profile summer team, high school team or play college baseball and be seen as a college baseball player at one of their different scout show days or one of their games. So go to work hard, get in the work out room, get your physical attributes up to speed as it relates to professional player. Get into position where you can be seen by professional scouts whether it be a professional try out, a college team or a high profile high school or summer team. And perhaps you'll be seen and get the opportunity to sign and become a professional baseball player. And in short that's how you become a professional baseball player."