Practicing your hitting off of a tee will help to improve those line-drive fundamentals that get results at the plate. Of course, the point of this drill is to get the baseball bat from a comfortable resting point to the point of contact as quickly and as accurately as possible. The ball is always placed at the ideal point of contact in the hitting zone for an inside, down the middle, or outside pitch. Undeniably, this will train your muscles to remember the correct swing for those various points of contact because it is something that should be done repetitiously everyday. You will develop an excellent, but more important a consistent swing. Getting set up in a position to hit the pitch with authority will be automatic.

The tee should be set up slightly in front of and on the inside portion of the plate to simulate an inside strike and slightly toward the back and outside portion of the plate to simulate an outside stirke, while you practice hitting the ball to their respective fields. Remember, when practicing to hit the ball to opposite fields, you want to let the pitch travel further into the hitting zone before making contact. This is the reason that you place the tee on the back portion of the plate. Put the tee over the middle of the plate to simulate a perfect pitch and practice hitting the ball straight up the middle 'through the box'. Improving your ability to hit any type of pitch and increasing your plate coverage is the objective.

As far as the height of the tee you should change it back and forth from high to low, allowing your body and hands to feel the various points of ideal contact. Typically, you want to raise the tee as high as possible in your strike zone because it will train you to keep your hands up and 'strong' throughout your swing. It can help to prevent any unwanted dropping of the hands and back shoulder. Picture your shoulders as an 'airplane' trying to land. You would want the wings of the plane to remain level as you hit the runway and it is the same for your shoulders when hitting a baseball. If you find yourself striking the tee at all or popping the ball up off the tee, it is an indicator that you are dropping your hands or shoulder or both.