Posted by: () on Sat Oct 18 12:08:21 2003

It seems that all the hitters we toalk about on this site are power hitters, big muscle guys. Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, Pujols, etc. Are their any weak or small hitters who use this rotational hitting method? Guys like Jimmy Rollins, Juan Pierre, Greg Counsel?
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> > Few don't. Gwynn. Ichiro...?
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> > How big is Soriano? Hank Aaron wasn't all that big.
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> OK but who else? Delino Deshields, J-Roll, Tim Raines, Pee Wee Reese?

Don't have any clips of those guys, but in general I would say you either want to adopt the Ichiro model, or you want hit the ball as hard as you can. For a smaller guy, the goal might be hard singles with the occasional gapper while for Mac or Bonds the goal is to hit it out of the park with others somewhere in between. But I still believe the rotational model is the way to go.