Posted by: Tony Cannizzo (tcannizzo@gmail.com) on Sat Nov 22 07:03:42 2008

Question: Is it better for a hitter to track the pitch by moving the head with the eyes in a fixed position? Or keep the head fixed and only track the pitch my moving the eyes.

Background: I have always believed in the latter, which I had gleened/learned from several respected coaches. But I became an umpire for a period of time recently, and was trained to track the pitch by moving the head. I became comfortable in doing it, and seldom (almost never) really had coaches or players complaining about my zone.

Now that I am back coaching 12-U girls fastpitch, I am inclinded to go back to my original beliefs. Including vision drills where the hitters do not swing at pitches, but just track with the eyes all the way into the catcher's mitt.

What say ye?