Posted by: 7Trio (pdwyatt@joplin.com) on Sun Apr 17 22:19:25 2005

Sirs-
After a few years of thinking this all over, I'd like to offer the following;
After doing the math, you'll find that the best college fastpitch pitchers throwing around 65 and in some cases a little faster compare with MLB pitchers (the mid to high 90's guys)as far as "reaction time" from release to the plate. Do the math yourself....it's very interesting & you won't have to take my word for it. With that given, obviously you're looking for the best technique to get the bat head to the ball and everything that the mind/body union has to do within the timeframe alotted. Again, given the "reaction time" is the same, and consider that the smaller baseball is traveling say 98 mph and the larger softball is travelling 68 mph....which one is harder for the eye to pick up and track??!!! Of course the baseball is much harder to see. Therefore, I content that the best, fastest swingers of a bat to a ball are MLB players since theier circumstance is harder to deal with. Therefore finally, I contend that their swings and approach to hitting is the best method to apply to softball as well. I know about all the fun stories about Jennie Finch striking out MLB players and such but if you gave those guys a little practice time to see that stuff and get a little more used to seeing where the pitch is coming from..........you'd have to outfit the entire defense in armour plate or someone would get killed! (by the way...I agree...let the rise ball fly & SIT ON SOMETHING THAT'S YOU & GO HACKIN')
Your Thoughts'
7Trio