Posted by: mark (wogdoggy@comcast.net) on Wed Dec 7 17:03:00 2005

> > Well we all know that there is more than one way to skin a cat. And to be quite honest with you, I've been playing professionally for 8yrs now and have never heard any of my coaches refer to Epstein or Williams when teaching hitting. Not that what they teach or taught isn't legit, its just not talked about too much.
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> > Ted Williams was EXTREMELY talented and had amazing hand eye cordination and eye sight to go with it.
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> > Albert Pujols is EXTREMELY talented and has amazing hand eye cordination yet his swing is much different from Williams and they both were and are great hitters.
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> > Williams taught that you should have a slight uppercut through the ball, Pujols bat is very flat through the zone.
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> > Both of them have awesome "Bat Lag" and release(d) the bat head at the correct time to produce maximum bat speed at the point of impact. If you think for a second that it doesn't take powerful, quick, explosive hands and wrists to explode the bat head through the ball, your mistaken.
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> > Great Video by the way.....I wouldn't be suprised if he is taking batting practice with this swing, if you notice his front hip flys open pretty quick and it appears that he has "pull the ball" on his mind. If he were to fly his front hip open and rotate that much on a ball on the outer portion of the plate, he wouldn't have much power left to drive the ball the other way. I don't know exactly what type of hitter he was, (pull, or spray) but my guess is he liked to pull the ball. Ted could probably do whatever he wanted, but there will probably never be another hitter like him.
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> > If you ever notice..some hitters (Vlad G.) will actually slide their back foot behind them when swining to keep their front hip closed. He hit a grand slam against the Red Sox in the Playoffs in 04' in Fenway and took a pitch middle in and hit it over the wall to right center.
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> > The Angels teach more of a Directional or Weight shift approach as opposed to really rotating your hips, which can cause "spinning" or overrotating on balls middle and middle away if your not careful. They teach you to keep your front hip closed and drive your back hip to the ball so your direction is through the middle of the field. If you fly your front hip to fast, and ball is away from you, you have to cast your hands out away from you body just to stay online with the ball, and we all know that getting your hands away from you and your back elbow away from your side puts you in a very weak hitting postion.
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> > what do you think of this paragraph? how can i leave a link of a swing?
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> http://baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=36819&page=3


I wanted jacks opinion on the "SPINNING that the angels player talks about.I found my older boy spinninig out on his back foot and struggling with inside stuff.I noticed that when i took my swing from eras ago.lol..that my back foot naturally went forward and didnt stay and spin.I thought it would make for an interesting discussion .Thanks GUYS.