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Over time, we’ve honed our testing matrix to combine both baseball skills and overall athletic ability to provide the best combination of factors that make the best players stand out and give everyone a sense of how they can improve.
Learn more below about why our Sports Athletic Testing is crucial to an athlete’s development.
How does your game stack up against others?
Knowing how your athletic movements help or hurt your baseball skill development can mean the difference between being good or being great.
Baseball Factory has spent the last 24 years testing and recording tens of thousands of player’s athletic and baseball skills in thousands of events all over the country. We have used those results to help build the nations #1 Baseball Evaluation organization in the industry.
Why is it important for your athlete to be evaluated?
Above all, parents want the best for their children. In today’s world of rushing from travel ball to competitive showcases at high levels, players are receiving incredible opportunities to showcase their skills, but lack the necessary development of a well-rounded game. The problem becomes there is not enough time for self-evaluation. Coaches only have so much time to provide necessary adjustments and tweaks to an athlete’s game to help them improve in those crucial areas.
This program provides specific testing, highlighting key factors, athletically and mechanically to one day become the best player they can be. Having this information, an athlete understands exactly where their skill set is and can focus on becoming more balanced, working on key areas of their game.
Introducing Baseball Factory’s Official Baseball SAT (Sports Athletic Testing). See where your game compares to others in your state and nationwide!
What is Baseball Factory’s Sports Athletic Testing?
Powered by Baseball Factory, the Baseball SAT helps compare your athletic and mechanical baseball skills to other athletes your age across the country. This information will help you become a more balanced and overall better baseball player.
Our experts have developed 20 athletic tests that when combined, provide an accurate assessment of your athletic ability on the field. These test results fit into a specific category and will help you understand where you need to improve as an athlete and how that information translates into the overall improvement of your baseball game.
Scroll over each icon to learn more about our tests and why we select them.
Your assigned Player Development Coordinator will follow up with detailed information of your results that will help you get the most out of your game in the future, as well as important next steps based on your personal evaluation.
Each player’s path is different; however our National Team and National Training events are designed to segment players based on their Baseball SAT score into the specific events that will help them the most.
The Baseball SAT comes to your town just one time this year! Join the tens of thousands of great players before you and start your journey to greatness!
The time to improve is now! Register today to be included in the online State and National Rankings on our SAT Top Performers page!
What Do We Test? 10-Yd Sprint – This measures the athletes acceleration in the first 10 yards of the sprint. This is crucial when tracking down a ball or exploding off of a base.
What Do We Test? First Base to Second Base – Similar to stealing a base or advancing from first base on a ground ball, this test measures an athlete’s acceleration and speed in a game-like scenario.
Why Do We Test? Acceleration is the measuring of an athlete’s ability to “get moving” and get up to his/her top running speed.
Straight Line Speed
What Do We Test? 40-Yd Dash – For baseball and softball players that compete on a 60-foot diamond, this is the distance covering two base paths.
What Do We Test? 60-Yd Dash – For baseball players on a regulation 90-foot diamond, this distance covers two base paths.
Why Do We Test? As straight forward as we can get, this tests an athlete’s speed from Point A to Point B at an equal distance they run on a baseball diamond most often. Acceleration, top speed and stamina combine to showcase an athlete’s straight-line speed. Knowing where the athlete is faster or slower will help focus their training more on a specific part of their run to decrease their overall 60-time.
Agility
How Do We Test? 5-10-5 (yds) – Athlete will run in short bursts five yards to his/her right, change direction 10 yards in the next movement, pivots and explodes five yards back to the right and finishes. This is tested both to the athlete’s right and left side.
What Does It Test? The shuttle run tests an athlete’s lateral quickness, explosion in short areas and ability to change direction.
Why Do We Test? Infielders: Need to have the ability to quickly get to a ground ball hit to their right or left. Outfielders: Need to have the ability to quickly get to a ball hit to their right or left while also changing direction. Base Runners: Need to have the ability to go from a lead-off stance and explode out when stealing a base. This gives a better understanding on how easy or difficult it is for an athlete to change direction. Also gives a better idea of how an athlete’s footwork and coordination will be.
Explosion
What Do We Test? Vertical Jump – Athlete crouches and explodes into a jump straight up. Here, we can see here how powerful the lower half can be.
What Do We Test? Standing Broad Jump – Similar to the feel of a vertical jump, the athlete starts from a still place, crouches, rocks back and leaps forward on a horizontal plane. This measures lower half strength, hip mobility and core strength.
What Do We Test? Right/Left Lateral Broad Jump – Taking the standard broad jump to the next level, here we can test for lateral quickness and explosion by having the athlete jump off on one leg and in the direction of the other. This also gives us a feel for the independent explosiveness of each side of the lower half of the body.
Why Do We Test? Explosiveness in baseball is displayed in all aspects. The swing, pitching motion and delivery, base running and the throwing process. It lends itself to bat speed, arm speed and running speed through the power and explosion in our legs.
Strength
What Do We Test? Medicine Ball Toss– This test works to determine total body strength and explosion by having the athlete toss a weighted ball as far as they can.
What Do We Test? Grip Strength – Using a dynamometer, we test for grip strength by having an athlete squeeze the device as hard as they can for a few seconds. The stronger an athlete’s grip is, usually the quicker the bat and arm speed because they can hold the bat/ball looser, creating more fluidity.
Why Do We Test? Strength correlates to raw power, arm strength and explosiveness.
Baserunning
What Do We Test? Homeplate to First Base – The most common base running path is the one from home to first. We test for this time to determine an athlete’s ability to get out of the box and their straight-line speed to first base.
What Do We Test? First Base to Third Base – We measure the time it takes to go from first to third to get an idea of acceleration, speed, agility and efficiency.
Why Do We Test? During these skill tests, lower or faster times when running provide an idea of straight-line speed, acceleration, agility and efficiency.
Throwing
What Do We Test? Raw Velocity – An athlete throws a ball into a net and speed is measured using a radar gun. Also helps to get an idea for arm speed.
What Do We Test? Arm Speed – Slightly more subjective than a measurable action, we determine an athlete’s arm speed by observing as they throw during velocity testing and their defensive workout. We look at how quickly their arm moves through the throwing motion and releasing the ball toward their target.
Why Do We Test? We test for arm strength and speed to determine an athlete’s ability to throw at their current and subsequent next level.
Hitting
What Do We Test? Bat Speed – Measured by observing the swing beginning after the load process, through the contact point of the ball. How fast an athlete can get from his/her load through contact and into a follow through.
What Do We Test? Exit Velocity – We measure the exit velocity by using a radar gun in mph (miles per hour). This gives an idea of an athlete’s bat speed, explosiveness, hand speed, and strength overall.
What Do We Test? Approach Angle – The angle the hands and bat are at after the load process to determine how efficient the path to contact will be.
What Do We Test? Time to Contact – A sub measurement of bat speed, we measure how quickly an athlete can get to the point of contact from their load position. A quick time to contact correlates to an athlete’s ability to hit pitches of higher velocity or see pitches longer, producing a higher rate of success.
What Do We Test? Maximum Hand Speed – Shows how quickly the hands are moving specifically through the swing process.
Why Do We Test? We take measurements during the swing to give an idea of how efficient and offensively talented an athlete may be.