Posted by: john (ajjdad@hotmail.com) on Thu May 8 11:15:07 2008

Jack, great way of putting it.You're right. I'm lucky to be able to watch some great hitters here in Red Sox Country.If someone can effectively let the ball get deep, in thoery anyway, they will be able to use the priciples of rotational hitting. Now, regarding Manny, Youkillis, Ortiz, etc.,when the ideal swing is not executed, typically due to being fooled by a pitch or, maybe just protecting more with 2 strikes, there is definitely linear ocurrences here. I've seen many times when Manny has reached away from the body and, just hit the ball away. It was definitley not an example of letting the ball get deep.Youkillis, has done it many times as well.