Posted by: Chris O'Leary (chris@chrisoleary.com) on Thu Nov 16 13:21:05 2006

"When our team went to a 'rotational' instructor, one of the first things he did was to place a wiffle ball next to our hitter's back heel and instructed them that the heel should spin and drive the ball straight back."

Spinning on the ball of the back foot isn't what the best hitters do.

The wiffle ball wouldn't move much, if at all, if you put it next to Albert Pujols' back heel when he took his swing.

For example, see...

http://imageevent.com/siggy/hitting/pro2?p=60&n=61&m=12&c=4&l=0&w=4&s=0&z=9