Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Thu Apr 28 01:41:39 2005

Hi Scott

There have been a good number of players (baseball and softball) who have used the batting principles of Batspeed.com to attain college scholarships and pro contacts. We have received many e-mails and posts to the board regarding the number of colleges and professional teams who are using our program.

As an example, below is a post regarding Kevin Sewell.

Jack Mankin
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“Senior second baseman Kevin Sewell was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association All-American first team, ABCA North Central Region Player of the Year and Great Lakes Valley Conference Player of the Year. Sewell’s numbers included a .415 batting average, a school-record 16 home runs and a school-record 85 RBI. Sewell later signed a professional contract with the Florida Marlins where he was named team MVP of the Jamestown Jammers. In addition, sophomore center fielder Kevin Reynolds was named to the ABCA All-North Central Region first team and all-Great Lakes Valley Conference first team. The Hawks reached as high as No. 26 in the Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division II poll during the season.”
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Re: Re: Great Website
Posted by: Martin (mailto: on Fri Oct 8 16:54:49 2004

>> I have been educating myself with this website since November of 2003. This is by far the best website I have found about hitting. I completely changed my swing based on what I learned from this website. I played at a division 2 school that swung wood bats in conference and I went from hitting .355 with 9 doubles and 3 homeruns my junior year (all-conference numbers) to hitting .415 with 23 doubles and 16 homeruns my senior year. (all-American numbers) I ended up signing with the Florida Marlins as a result. Thank you for all of the education. If anyone knows of any sites where I can get more video clips, I would love to hear from you. Thanks again.

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> Kevin, I extend my congratulations to you. I am a scout for the Mets, and i know a lot of the scouts in both leagues. I can tell you that the Mets, Marlins and the Cardinals have been focusing their efforts on pitching first, speed second and hitters third. But when they do sign a hitter they are looking specifically for a hitter who has sound rotational mechanics such as Jack has described. They are looking for hitters who can drive the inside and outside pitch, and the scouts feel that good execution of top hand torque wull go a long way in achieving this. On the other hand there are some organizations that seem to have a linear philosophy (the A's and Mariners come to mind). Understand that I am not criticizing them. If they feel linearism fits better with their style of slap hits to the opposite field, that's ok. But I feel (as do the scouts with scouts of the Cards, Marlins and my own organization) that in the long run, with tht you can score more runs using tht to drive HOMERUNS to the pull and opposite field rather than going linear and being satisfied with slap singles. Again, congratulations on your success.
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Bernie I would like to correct the record. I scout for the Astros. I can't speak for the other organizations, but Astro scouts are always looking for rotational hitters. We equate linearism with batting average, and rotation with average plus power. We equate rotationalism with top hand torque/circular hand path, and we equate linearism with hitting mechanics of yesterday. Martin