HOW TO PLAY DEFENSE LIKE JAVY BAEZ

[Music] the second baseman number nine [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there we go [Music] [Applause] so give me one drill though for the kids at home a good infield drill that you kind of do daily to kind of keep your stuff going let's you know obviously when I take a look mat when I set my ground balls my early work I don't stop moving you know I take the gum balls throw to every face and you know keep my legs moving [Music] [Music] and on the tags just just for me just to get Elly to the back because because I'm always expecting a bathroom to the side so if you add it to the back you can move around and get get out of his Lane and you know obviously donger our first bad low high throw boom yeah depends depends on well where's the ball if I go up I just forget about my my feet and you start laying on my knees [Music] so so I go faster down that's that's that's one one thing that when you go up you have to get your feet and then go down and and when I when I jump I just try to learn with my knees and my a my my head at the same time soften and let the pizza cooks do it runner takes off Nieuwenhuis the tag is it time or buyers with it great this this hand is gonna be loose all the time aha so you're going high high throw do a high tech boom boom we got a good throw now boom we got one over here and goes Marte and he's out what a tag by Baez boom and we got one in the runner BAM he's got the snapchat glasses on we're gonna see what it's like through your eyes [Music] here's older younger you have to go there he goes [Music] is the 10% nice tag with swags Javy Baez no Dom I tell you right now obviously best tagger this games ever seen best instincts defensively at this game saying that came from your manager even have you always been a bad man defensively yes to be honest yes diving stop by ask from Annie [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he dives and catches his ball about shoulder high [Applause] here's the pitch and he cracks his bat on a little pop into shallow right-center field and making a nice who is Javier Baez boy that was a really nice play but [Music] profe are takes off the pitch is bounced over the head of Rizzo backing up on the play by his throat at first he got Javier Baez out in shadow right right along the fountain one is lined up the middle deflecting off the glove of Mazzoni barehanded play Baez he'll throw to first in time Javier Baez with another terrific play that'll go one eye shut yeah I actually started sent a few when when I was young send a feeling catcher really yeah and you know guy I got used to seeing the ball good out of the bat from back there yeah you know obviously here in their fields giving this here for me so what's your favorite spot on the infield is a second or short second second base always been kind of a like this one better than I play sure most of the time but I got used to second and turn it into second it wasn't easy though and it's more relaxing Whittemore one about hidden so so now let's talk about to get right to it WBC one of the greatest players ever tell me at what point did you start pointing as the ball is coming and I'm halfway because I didn't know he was throwing the ball the first baseman was playing behind behind the runner and yeah he was kind of in in between if he was gonna throw the ball and I was just making sign to find out it and if it was and then when he took her front and I hit through the ball I said yes you did it and you know I did I didn't know I did it after - after the game that saw everybody you know other videos and all these messages and know it's crazy Javy Baez those are tags with swag greggy back to you [Music] you

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Id: ibU2U-kA_EM

Length: 7min 43sec (463 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 04 2018