Posted by: RQL () on Fri Jun 8 18:21:55 2001

Watching Manny Ramirez this year he hits a lot of balls with topspin. Line drives that constantly dip in the out field and hard topspin ground balls. He also drives a lot of pitches over the fence including the record 491 ft job at Skydome last week. He was intentionally walked the other night 4 times in one game. Earlier this year he was intentionally walked with no one on base and he represented the winning run! I don't think there is a better hitter in baseball particularly since he has absolutely no one hitting behind him. He has been the offense on the Red Sox this year. I love watching his mechanics, they are pretty much what Jack prescribes. .>>Manny seems to be a guy who aims for the middle and seldom hits it,some, top spin making people duck and others they just turn and watch it fly out of the park,pretty good either way.