• Hit: A combination of balance, swing path, quickness and strength and how this allows a to make solid contact consistently.
• Hit For Power: How hard young players hit the ball. As players mature physically through high school and college this equates to the distance the ball travels when a good swing is put on the ball.
• Field/Defense: The ability, through footwork, to be in a good position to receive the ball as it is thrown, or hit on the ground or in the air. Once in this position, field/defense is how well do your hands work to actually make a catch.
• Arm Strength: How hard does the player throw the ball? Does the player throw the ball hard and accurate with online carry? Baseball catchers average pop time 2.0; softball catchers 1.7.
• Run: How fast is a player? Baseball players are measured in 60-yard dash and 6.8 seconds is the Major League average. Home to first base 4.2/4.3 is the Major League average. Softball players are measured home-to-first and the average is 2.5-2.7.

• Control: Ability to throw a strike.
• Command: Ability to work accurately within the strike zone.
• Fastball: The pitch you throw with the greatest velocity measurable in miles per hour. Working velocity and top velocity is most measured. Major League average is 90 mph. Softball college average is 64 mph.
• Curveball: Quality-of-pitch directly relates to ability to spin the ball with leverage and front-side extension.
• Slider: Hard, short breaking pitch quality based on spin leverage, tilt and depth.
• Change: Feel-pitch quality based on rotation, arm speed and deception.
• Drop/Rise: Actual change in plane of the ball, leverage, arm speed and deception … all make these pitches quality.

**Average is not a mean. Average is a level that means anything above is special and anything below is a normal level.