Posted by: Teacherman () on Sun Apr 25 13:04:41 2004

I've been watching Manny Ramirez swing this season and was wondering how you guys analyze it? ... tht? Anything informative?
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> Hi Michael L.,
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> The way I analyze Manny's swing is through the application of geometry.
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> If Manny Ramirez rotated his bat-head only 90 degrees, he would attain 1/3 of his current power, since the bat is not given enough time to accelerate.
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> Gyrating the bat an additional 90 degrees would add to his power; yet he would only accumulate 2/3 of the momentum he is capable of generate by contact.
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> Allow him to swing the bat-head 270 degrees, though, and he will attain the most force by impact.
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> This is because one can only achieve momentum by allowing an object to accelerate over time.
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> Hope this helps.
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> BHL

Your "advice" does more harm then good.BHL you should stick to your liertur stuff and stay away from math and baseball.You learn hitting by being in the batters box and I'm not talking about slow pitch softball.Ramirez has sucess for one reason, he throws his hands at the ball and watches the ball go in the seats.Nothing to do with trying to pull the ball nothing to do with math, nothing to do with top hand torque.Just do the fence drill, have a short compact swing and everything will fall into place.Honestly I wonder why I even wase my time at this site.