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Here’s how to make the most of your fall, to become the catcher you want to be in the spring. 📈The fall has the potentia...
09/03/2026

Here’s how to make the most of your fall, to become the catcher you want to be in the spring. 📈

The fall has the potential to be the most valuable season of the year, if you use it properly.

You’re probably playing some games, but not as many (or as meaningful) as in the spring. This combination gives you more time to train, along with opportunities to apply and test your adjustments to see how they transfer to the game - an efficient feedback loop.

So whatever your goals are, whatever you need to improve so you’re the best version of yourself possible come spring time, USE THIS FALL to attack each of those areas.

Been wanting to try a new stance?
Now is your time to work on it. Rep it out in your training. Explore your options. Then rip it in game to see how it holds up and continue building your comfort and trust in it.

Want to throw harder?
That won’t happen overnight in January. Start that process now. Build arm strength. Move more efficiently in your throw. Give yourself the time it actually takes to make real gains.

Need to get better at handling velo?
Challenge yourself in your training now. Push the limit. Crank the machine up. Get uncomfortable. Do it until fast starts to look slow. Until you get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Need to improve your mobility?
Make it a daily priority. Even just a little bit of good mobility work, done consistently from now until spring, will make a big difference.

Whatever your goals are, they won’t happen on accident.

To become the catcher you want to be in the spring,
You’ll have to do what he would do today, in the fall.

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If you’re looking for GUIDANCE toward your goals as a catcher, we can help. 🤝

We have both REMOTE and IN-PERSON training options available, for catchers of all ages looking to elevate themselves behind the plate.

CLICK THE LINK IN BIO to get started ‼️📈

09/02/2026

Keep your body QUIET 🤫 & your glove LOUD 🗣️

When we struggle to catch high velocity with extra movement, putting the screen up can help us feel a calm tempo through the catch. We want to be direct without moving anything besides our left shoulder/arm.

Any tense movements from the beginning of our target set up will follow along with us to the catch! Prioritize staying relaxed and limiting body movement first, then trust your glove to make an aggressive and clean catch. ⚡️

Good moves from the 😮‍💨 McLennan Highlander Baseball

[ Video from Hank - Coach & College Catching Coach McLennan Highlander Baseball ]

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Hank is one of our coaches inside BACKSTOP CLUB♣️ - our fully REMOTE catcher training platform designed to give members access to high-level information, daily structure, and guidance to improve every aspect of their game behind the plate📈

To join our REMOTE CATCHING COMMUNITY, or even work directly with Hank 1:1, visit the LINK IN BIO 📲‼️

See you in the Club🫡

BACKSTOP BOOTCAMP - BRADENTON @ HITLAB 🚨We’re coming back to Bradenton, FL in September for another Backstop Bootcamp at...
09/01/2026

BACKSTOP BOOTCAMP - BRADENTON @ HITLAB 🚨

We’re coming back to Bradenton, FL in September for another Backstop Bootcamp at HitLab Palmetto ‼️

One day of intensive catcher work, high-level instruction, and an opportunity to elevate every aspect of your game behind the plate.

Learn directly from our founder, Turner Pruitt, on what it takes to catch at a high level, with hands-on coaching and lots of quality reps.

[This camp is now only 1 day, as opposed to 2 days, as it was originally announced]

🗓️Saturday, September 19
📍Bradenton, FL HitLab Palmetto
👥Youth (8-13): 9am-12pm
👥High School (14-17): 12:30-3:30pm

LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE‼️

Reserve your spot at the LINK IN BIO📲

08/28/2026

IN THE LAB🔬
Lower Half Throwing Drills
Turner Pruitt with burn of Illinois State Baseball

Here are two throwing drills we used to help Tyler better utilize his lower half in the throw by finding a more effective hinge position, allowing him to rotate more efficiently.

Tyler has been working remotely with Turner inside Backstop Club for several months, and they had an opportunity to link up in person recently in Chicago for a couple days of intensive training. Been awesome to watch his growth in every aspect behind the plate. Tyler has been bought in from day 1, is relentlessly committed to his craft and we’re pumped to watch him do his thing this year at Illinois State Baseball 📈

The kind of dude who embodies what it means to be a 🫡⚡️

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If you’re looking to improve your throwing, increase arm strength, and reduce your pop time, we have both remote and in-person (Tampa & Denver) options available.

Visit BACKSTOPBANDITS.com to learn more ‼️📲

Want to get noticed by college coaches?Throw hard. Coaches at the next level love tools. And as a catcher, your loudest ...
08/26/2026

Want to get noticed by college coaches?

Throw hard.

Coaches at the next level love tools. And as a catcher, your loudest tool is your arm.

There’s obviously much more that college coaches look for. But them may never even look, if you don’t give them something shiny to look at.

If you show up to a game or a showcase with people watching, and you throw an absolute missile to second base, you will turn heads.

A coach may even circle your name.

Then he’ll watch more closely to see what else you can do.

So if this is one of the main things college coaches look for, you might as well prioritize it and do everything you can to build a throw tool worth showcasing.

This won’t happen overnight. Elite throwing is developed with the RIGHT training done consistently over a long period of time. You have to create the desired adaptations in your body that you need to make the body throw the ball hard. That doesn’t just happen.

We help catchers improve their arm strength, quickness, movement efficiency, pop-time, and accuracy every day.

Our offerings include:

🔫BB GUN CATCHER THROWING TRAINING
📍In-person in TAMPA BAY, FL

🔥REMOTE CATCHERS THROWING PROGRAM with THROWformance
📲Inside our BACKSTOP CLUB app

Visit BACKSTOPBANDITS.com to learn more ‼️

08/23/2026

BUNKER TAPES 📼

Splitters…

Gotta be patient. Gotta trust your glove. Gotta be fast and accurate with the pocket. ⚡️

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Fall training at THE BACKSTOP BUNKER in Pinellas Park, FL is rolling 🧱📈

Catching Skills Training
BB Gun Catcher Throwing Training

Memberships available

If you want to become an elite defender behind the plate, this is the place for you.

LINK IN BIO‼️

SCENES FROM BACKSTOP BOOTCAMP - DENVER 📸Special group of catchers. Special group of coaches. Continuing to put Colorado ...
08/17/2026

SCENES FROM BACKSTOP BOOTCAMP - DENVER 📸

Special group of catchers. Special group of coaches.

Continuing to put Colorado catchers on the map and build the Culture in the 303. One generation at a time. 📈

No place like home.

Address

1 Stadium Plaza
Gary, IN
46402

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