Posted by: The Hitting Guru (hitman3527@aol.com) on Thu Jun 1 19:50:20 2006

Benefits
1. a simple swing and approach
2. less likely to go into prolonged slumps
3. greater contact on fastballs
4. easier to use the hole field
5. uses more upper body strength
6. easier to hit the high pitch

Flaws
1. decreased power
2. harder to hit the low pitch
3. harder to breaking pitches
4. tendency to hit the ball off the end of the bat
5. less batspeed
6. tendency to pull off pitches due to lack of batspeed