Bunting Drills with Vanderbilt Baseball and ATEC

Learn how Vanderbilt Coach Tim Corbin uses ATEC machines for bunting drills.

Vanderbilt Baseball Coach Tim Corbin uses ATEC training machines like the ATEC M3X not only for defensive drills, but also to help his team improve at the dish. Using an ATEC machine as a pitcher on the mound, Corbin and his team practice precision bunting drills.

Corbin uses the ATEC Training Machine for bunting drills because it delivers consistent fastballs, allowing his team to maximize repetitions in practice.

“It gives you a quick paced baseball. It can put the ball exactly where you want it, and you’re not having to throw the ball and utilize an arm.”

Corbin sets the machine on the mound, 60’6” away from home plate. This allows the machine to simulate a pitched ball. Corbin can adjust the machine to alter pitch location, velocity and spin.

The Vanderbilt coach uses cones to set up bunting targets for his players. These infield targets indicate where the ball should go, and players like it because it gives them a visual and helps them learn how to place their bunts. Corbin has some advice to help players lay down the perfect bunt.

“When we want to get lower to the ball, what we do is we get a little bit wider with our feet and we try to get our chest out over our leg a little bit in order to get closer to the ball,” Corbin said. “It’s a little bit easier to bunt the ball when we’re down underneath it.”