Posted by: David Keesee (baseball4420007@gmail.com) on Mon Jul 21 13:50:57 2008

Whats up Jacek,
My name is David. I like your take on this. A rotational swing and a linear swing both have their pros and cons. In my opinion, having only one or the other is not optimizing a hitters full potential. I think ideally, a hitter should try to have both a linear swing and a rotational swing. Although the hands should rotate. This pulls the hitter off the ball and the their best shots are hit foul. I've been played in the minors for 6 years and i saw a lot of hitters who were both linear and rotaional. Hittes like Manny, and A-Rod and those guys are linear and rotational hitters. You can tell that they are linear by their back foot. The laces on their shoe are faced up and forward toward the pitcher. The back foot is up on its toe and maybe even slides a little forwad. However, their hips rotate in a "rotational hitting" manner. Their hands stay long through the baseball (or linear), creating a big hitting zone. So ideally, I believe a hitter should be both.

David J. Keesee
Chief Executive Officer
All Aspects Baseball
www.allaspectsbaseball.com





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