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Posted by: The Hitting Guru () on Mon Jan 8 16:30:44 2007

> Jimmy, you have totally misunderstood my message. No sense in trying to explain any further. Just view clips of MLB hitters and where the bat and hands are at different stages of the turn.

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Bob. Are you referring to the term "knob to the ball" where the bat trails the hands and the bat snaps through to the point of contact? I can actually remember a couple of times when I executed that resulting in a homerun or deep hit over the outfielder's head. The funny thing is the ball was so far inside, that I used to wonder how I could have hit the ball fair. But it had to because of the fence drill aproach and snapping the bat through the zone.

(Of note (not that you have not seen this before) I happened to view the highlights of the allstar candidates on MLB.COM and Jose Canseco probably illustrated the approach of snapping the bat through the zone as good as anyone. It is interesting to see that he brought his hands in and used the small arc to rapidly wheel the fat part of the bat to the ball.

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> > Jimmy, you have totally misunderstood my message. No sense in trying to explain any further. Just view clips of MLB hitters and where the bat and hands are at different stages of the turn.
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> Bob.  Are you referring to the term "knob to the ball" where the bat trails the hands and the bat snaps through to the point of contact?  I can actually remember a couple of times when I executed that resulting in a homerun or deep hit over the outfielder's head.  The funny thing is the ball was so far inside, that I used to wonder how I could have hit the ball fair.  But it had to because of the fence drill aproach and snapping the bat through the zone.  
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> (Of note (not that you have not seen this before) I happened to view the highlights of the allstar candidates on MLB.COM and Jose Canseco probably illustrated the approach of snapping the bat through the zone as good as anyone.  It is interesting to see that he brought his hands in and used the small arc to rapidly wheel the fat part of the bat to the ball.

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