Posted by: T Olson () on Tue Mar 13 21:12:24 2001

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Here's a visual aid. I synced it as good as I could and added frame numbers. It appears his weight did shift more (earlier) in the one on the right. His stride leg was coming down sooner in relationship to the start of the swing.

It was synced at the point of front foot rollover. It appears the swing started at the same time but the stride started earlier on the second clip. Lunged a bit more and didn't stay back as long. Fooled a little yes.

I personally think he is generally rotational with a softer landing. However, he does use his weight to power rotation IMO.

He "sits to hit" and many confuse the "ground-loading" of the lead leg/knee with lunging. These types of hitters IMO do this intentionally and use this as a rotational power source (from the ground up).