critique my baseball pictures

first try at baseball

Action shots.

Overall a real good job in my opinion. The close play at 2nd (3rd shot) is the best of this bunch because of the uncluttered background and action.

I think the first shot would benefit from closer cropping.

The shots may have benefited from a polarizing filter, if you didn't use one, or an adjustment of color temperature. I almost feel like squinting at the pictures. The white pants on the Angels have a little overly-cool blue tint to them, and are a bit over-exposed.

But I'm nit-picking, looking at them as if I were going to put them in a book or sell prints. You got some nice, sharp, action shots there!

Just for my own practice, I took the liberty of working with your first photo:
-Crop
-Adjust hue for color temperature
-Saturated colors a bit
-Smart sharpen

Eh, maybe I over-did it a little.

I really like 3.

#3 is your best image, but all images unfortunatley, have missed (soft) focus on the action. #1 & #3 would be better images with a tighter crop. Your timing is good. A better lens, with a lower f stop and higher shutter speeds of 1/2000+ will make a dramatic change. Colors are fine. Maybe increase expose slightly (check your histogram).

i do want a faster lens my current one is constantly giving me OOF shoots at 300mm I actually have a problem with it focusing behind the subject a lot of the time i have about 300 other pictures from that day that are focused on the croud and the players are OOF even tho im using a single center focus and the players are dead center in the frame

The 75-300 is by far not your Rolls Royce of lenses. Instead of me writing up about this lens' overall capabilities, I have attached a link from Bryan Carnathan who can explain the lens better than I ever can.
Canon-EF-75-300mm-f-4-5.6

thats actually the usm version mine is the slower dc motor

I like the shot at second base. Nice composition and action captured perfectly.

You did good because you're an Angel fan

Nice job, especially considering the lens you're using, and that you're using it at the far end of the focal length.

Rent a really good, fast-focusing lens and do it again (you'll piss yourself when you see the results).

Love #3. Draws me, and holds me in suspense-- wanting to know the result of the play.