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rotational mechanics: hitting across path of ball?

Posted by: Jacek (jacekdmochowski@hotmail.com) on Sun Jul 20 10:19:49 2008

Does a circular hand path and rotational mechanics lead to the bat barrel taking a circular (or elliptical) path ACROSS the flight of the ball? If so, this would mean that it is more difficult for a rotational hitter to make solid contact than a linear hitter. It seems that a linear hand path would have the barrel taking a path ALONG the flight of the pitch.

This could indicate a tradeoff between power (rotational) and amount of time that the barrel stays in the zone (linear).

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Re: rotational mechanics: hitting across path of ball? David Keesee [ Mon Jul 21 13:50:57 2008 ]
Re: Re: rotational mechanics: hitting across path of ball? al_Oha [ Tue Jul 22 10:47:52 2008 ]

Re: rotational mechanics: hitting across path of ball? Chuck [ Mon Jul 21 07:07:21 2008 ]
Re: Re: rotational mechanics: hitting across path of ball? Jacek [ Mon Jul 21 11:35:21 2008 ]
Re: Re: Re: rotational mechanics: hitting across path of ball? Jack Mankin [ Tue Jul 22 08:54:34 2008 ]

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> Does a circular hand path and rotational mechanics lead to the bat barrel taking a circular (or elliptical) path ACROSS the flight of the ball? If so, this would mean that it is more difficult for a rotational hitter to make solid contact than a linear hitter. It seems that a linear hand path would have the barrel taking a path ALONG the flight of the pitch. > > This could indicate a tradeoff between power (rotational) and amount of time that the barrel stays in the zone (linear).

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