What are examples of baseball goals?

Take 100 swings off a tee every day for 30 days. Throw 20 strikes in a 30 pitch bullpen. Field 50 ground balls a day for 2 weeks. Attend every practice. Each one is a count you control.

What should go on a baseball goal sheet?

One hitting goal, one throwing or fielding goal, one fitness goal and one count of practices. Add one statistic you want to move, and write the habits that will move it underneath.

What are good baseball goals for kids?

Small daily counts: 15 minutes of catch, 25 swings off a tee, 20 ground balls. They are short enough to do after school and simple enough for a child to tick off alone.

25 baseball goals for hitting, pitching, fielding and your season

Updated October 1, 2026

Wall of bricks stacking as baseball practice swings and throws are logged

Baseball keeps a statistic for everything, and most of them are poor goals, because a batting average depends on the pitcher too. Good baseball goals count what you do in practice: swings off a tee, strikes in a bullpen, ground balls fielded. Here are 25 examples for hitters, pitchers and fielders, ready for a goal sheet.

Baseball hitting goals

Hitting goals count swings and clean contact. A swing off a tee is a closed skill you repeat alone, much like the range work in golf goals.

Take 100 swings off a tee every day for 30 days.
Take 500 swings a week through the off season.
Hit 7 line drives out of 10 off the tee.
Make solid contact on 8 pitches out of 10 in batting practice.
Swing only at strikes for a whole batting practice.

Pitching and throwing goals

Pitching goals count strikes, not speed, because a strike is the thing a game asks for.

Play catch for 15 minutes a day for 30 days.
Throw 20 strikes in a 30 pitch bullpen.
Hit the catcher's target 7 times out of 10.
Throw a first pitch strike to 6 batters out of 10 in a game.
Do long toss twice a week for 8 weeks.

Fielding goals

Fielding goals are about volume: enough clean repetitions that the play becomes ordinary.

Field 50 ground balls a day for 2 weeks.
Catch 25 fly balls in a practice without a drop.
Make 20 clean throws to first base in a row.
Field 10 backhand ground balls out of 10.
Be in a ready position before every pitch for a full game.

Speed, strength and baserunning goals

Speed and strength goals are built in the off season and measured with a stopwatch or a bar.

Take 0.2 seconds off your time from home to first.
Run 10 sprints of 90 feet, the distance between bases, twice a week for 8 weeks.
Do 3 sets of medicine ball throws twice a week through the off season.
Take a good lead on every pitch for a full game.
Run hard through first base on every ball you put in play all season.

Season and practice goals

Season goals are counts of work plus one statistic to aim at. For goals that fit any sport, see the wider list of goals for athletes.

Attend every practice of the season.
Write 3 lines about your at bats after every game.
Watch video of your swing once a week.
Raise your batting average by 30 points this season.
Make the team, or the starting nine.

What is a good baseball goal?

A good baseball goal is about your own work, not a line in the box score. A review of 27 studies of goal setting in sport found that process goals, the ones about how you carry out a skill, had the largest effect on performance (1.36). Goals about your own results came next (0.44), and goals about winning had almost none (0.09).

A batting average is a result. It depends on the pitcher, the defence and luck. "Swing only at strikes" is a process, and it is the part of the average you control. Keep one statistic as the target and write the rest as habits.

Put a number and a date on it, the way SMART goals are written: "Throw 20 strikes in a 30 pitch bullpen by opening day, with two bullpens a week." And make the repetitions good ones. A review of sports studies found that deliberate practice explained 18 percent of the differences in performance.

How to track baseball goals

Write down your counts after every practice. A review of 138 studies found that people who monitored their progress reached their goals more often, and that recording it beat keeping it in your head.

Swings, throws and ground balls are amounts that add up. Practices are a day count. An off season of about 12 weeks is the length of a 90 day challenge, and it is tracked the same way.

Six thousand swings between seasons is a lot to hold in your head. A picture that fills up 100 swings at a time shows the winter was not wasted.

Frequently asked questions

What are examples of baseball goals?: Take 100 swings off a tee every day for 30 days. Throw 20 strikes in a 30 pitch bullpen. Field 50 ground balls a day for 2 weeks. Attend every practice. Each one is a count you control.
What should go on a baseball goal sheet?: One hitting goal, one throwing or fielding goal, one fitness goal and one count of practices. Add one statistic you want to move, and write the habits that will move it underneath.
What are good baseball goals for kids?: Small daily counts: 15 minutes of catch, 25 swings off a tee, 20 ground balls. They are short enough to do after school and simple enough for a child to tick off alone.