Posted by: RQL () on Fri Oct 13 13:37:22 2000

Hi RQL
>
> I think you need to be careful on labeling low averages to power hitters. Go to majorleaguebaseball.com and check out the top hitters from each league, how many power and average hitters are in the top ten of each list?
>
> You can have some power without being a great hitter, Shane Spencer comes to mind. How much of his average is due to the fact that perhaps he expected to hit for power only?
>
> When you get a chance to see Carew, his swing will not look short. Lots of motion with a good swing plane.
>
> Shawn
>
> Shawn,your right and I did want to see some footage of these guys to prove or disprove my theory its been so long i cant remember his swing to well,could you post some clips at setpro.Also my thoughts on power hitters have been refering to the last generation not this one.Guys like Reggie,dave kingman,Johnny Bench,ect.I think had lower avg.than someone like Rose and got fooled alot more than the single hitters.Today is a new game ,hitting instruction is everywhere unlike then and the athletes are bigger and stronger and I think there are many fly ball homeruns today that would have stayed in the park 20 years ago.these homeruns are adding to avg. as well as power instead of taking away from both categories back then.I'd just like to wonder if Todd Helton concentrated on hitting singles would he have been a 400+ hitter this year or not.These kind of ques. ,if answered for sure could tell us the real difference between the 2 theorys.rql