The two most common bunting mistakes are reaching out to bunt the ball and dropping the bat head on a low pitch. You see these errors even on major league teams. Practice bunting a great deal every day early in the season and then have your hitters bunt the ball 3 or 4 times in every batting practice before they hit. Bunting in batting practice before the players hit has a two-fold purpose. It practices the skill of bunting and it gets the hitters used to tracking the ball.
Good hitters are aggressive and they swing at strikes.
They usually don t swing at bad pitches and are seldom fooled. They have developed the aptitude to swing at strikes. They are the counts in an at bat when the hitter can reasonably expect a fastball from the pitcher. Six situations when the probabilities are the pitcher will come to the plate with a fastball. 0-0 is a unique count. So the hitter can expect to see a pitch in the strike zone.