TIPS FOR YOUNG BASE RUNNERS☝🏽 Not all of them… but a A LOT of young pitchers will tend to slow their delivery down on 3-0 counts to try and avoid walking the hitter. My suggestion is to do a little recon in the dugout with your teammates when you get a runner on base, time the pitcher out of his stretch from leg lift to when the catcher receives it🕰️ Use your iPhone or stopwatch and make sure you track a large enough sample size of his deliveries that you can evaluate (not just 1 delivery like 10-15 in all different counts lol). For the players that say “my coach will violate me if he doesn’t give me the steal sign and I run on my own and get thrown out…” Trust me unless your coach is a complete psychopath almost 99% of coaches will not get upset if you swipe a bag on your own and you reach safely, because it actually makes them look smart also😎 If he asks you afterwards “why did you run without the sign?” and you say “because I timed his leg lift to the plate 8 times in the dugout ...