Posted by: () on Sun Jun 8 05:53:40 2003

OK, this site has shown me how to teach to increase bat speed. Can someone explain how I can get my youth hitters to adjust their swing to match the incoming pitch. I have several hitters who now have beautiful swings, but their bat only has one plane of swing so many times the batter swings over or under the pitch. If this is not the correct place to ask this, can you please direct me.
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> coach joed

Swing plane should be perpendicular to the spine. Adjust swing plane by torso tilt. More tilt over toward the plate for low pitches. Slight tilt back toward the catcher to angle the plane slightly upward at contact to match the downward plane of pitch. Epstein is fairly strong on this and setpro had a side by side comparison of a MLB hitter changing torso tilt for pitch location on a recent thread in the private hitting forums. Jack focuses more on how to transfer torso/shoulder rotation into batspeed. Hence the name batspeed I suppose. : )