Posted by: ray () on Fri Feb 21 10:29:45 2003

I was looking at the video of Bonds and reading Tony Gwynn's analysis and it has something to do with this discussion about circular hand path.
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> Gwynn said, "Bonds is right on top of the plate. You cannot get in on him because he takes the KNOB of the bat to the ball and keeps his hands inside of the ball. When you try to bust him in, he pulls his hands inside the ball and that's why he doesn't pull the ball foul. He takes the knob first and pulls it through the zone. Everybody else wants to get the barrel head there and they hook it foul".
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> Gwynn also says, "As he's starting to bring the bat through the zone, he takes the bottom hand - the knob of the bat hand and starts to pull it through the zone. THERE ISN"T MUCH ARC in it when he start to pull it through. It's not a downward pull. It's a pull right across his body."
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> Lastly, he says, " People sasy you can't pull the bat through the zone on a FLAT PLANE and generate any pop. Well, I give you Barry bonds, because that is exactly what he does. The TOP HAND is going along for the RIDE".
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> NO ARC and FLAT PLANE - TOP HAND along for the ride. Is he right or not? HES RIGHT ON