Thanks Greg for allowing me to share your question and my feedback with the readers and subscribers!
Greg has a 13 year old son who may not be seeing the ball well.
Here is my take.
The eyes are important Greg. The thing is, a lot of players who aren’t seeing the ball correctly actually don’t know that they aren’t simlply because of two main reasons.
1. They don’t necessarily know what to do with the eyes before the pitch
A lot of hitters run into trouble at the plate when they focus on the release point to early in the pitcher’s wind up.
The human eye can only focus on something for a few seconds(roughly). As the eyes dilate while preparing for the pitch, it’s better to work on timing for picking up the release point so that you can pick the speed, rotation, and path of the oncoming pitch as accurately as possible.
Ted Williams was known for staring into the background behind the pitcher before each pitch. I usually just looked at the pitcher and the field as a whole before having a harder focus.
2. They may be struggling with depth perception
Other hitters may be having an eye problem that deals closer with depth perception. A lot of these issues get overlooked simply becuase hitters assume they have great “baseball” eye sight because they have 20/20 vision.
According to many eye doctors, hitting a 90 mph fast-ball has much more to do with picking up the information of an object(the ball) in a 3-d space than having the ability to see far away.
If that happens to be the case I would suggest you check out a previous article and video.
Increasing baseball eye-sight and reaction.
Hope this helps Greg and tell your so I said good luck!!!