Posted by: Hitter () on Fri Feb 4 14:36:57 2005

>>>There are some Sosa clips at http://www.youthbaseballcoaching.com/swings.html . Do any of those clips show what you described?<<<

Yes, if you take a look at that page you linked, the video with this picture -- http://www.youthbaseballcoaching.com/images/Baseball_Clips_2-t0020.jpg -- displays what I mean. Just when the video His lead arm begins high, then descends to about his belly button, then rises again. That last ascension is what I am talking about.

Players such as Bonds lift their front arm as the bat begins rotating toward the catcher, but they do not lift it as high. At one point (that point I specified), Sosa's front arm is parallel with the ground.

Is raising the arm this high beneficial to bat speed?