Posted by: Mark Russo (redbird1@hotmail.com) on Tue Jul 18 13:35:43 2006

Dan, my hitting coach is a devotee of the Late Timing technique as a hitting tool with 2 strikes. He insists that it works if a hitter is willing to work at it. I have a college summer team in the mid-Atlantic loaded with hitters who are either confused by all the drills that they have to do in mastering the technique or are thinking too much when they get to the plate and before they know it, are down 2 strikes in the count. The result of this technique is that we lead the league in Ks ( 215 over 30 games ) and are last in hitting at under .200 . Something has got to be wrong here and in searching the web, have found no references to this style of hitting. My coach states that it was the LSU style of hitting under Coach Bertman but that was years ago and probably difficult to research. My hitters during the college season are all at least 75 -100 points down from their metal bat averages. It's been going on too long now for me to not get your opinion on this. Thanks for the feedback.