Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Fri Feb 23 02:00:29 2007

Hi Jimmy

You state:

“If the hitter can try to keep his sweet-spot on that line for as long as he can, while still continuing to apply THT, then his chances of hitting the ball on that sweet-spot are greater. When the sweet-spot travels into the hitting zone and is traveling too rotationally, the sweet-spot and the ball will have only one chance of crossing eachothers paths. When the sweet-spot crosses outside the hitting zone line then back across to the other side the ball and the sweet-spot will cross at exactly two and only two points.”

The over-head of John’s swing Brian showed is in contrast to your statement. You said his swing was to rotational and not Major League caliber. Why, because you contend that the Major League hitters extend their hands linear to keep the meat-of-the-bat inline with the ball while John’s hands remained circular to contact.

Below is a frontal and across the plate view of a very good Major league hitter. I would say an over-head view of Griffey’s swing would look almost identical to John’s over-head. Obviously, you would disagree. Please point out - (1) Where Griffey’s hand-path differs from John’s and (2) Where Griffey’s hands start to go linear.


http://www.youthbaseballcoaching.com/mpg/griffey_ken1.mpeg

http://www.youthbaseballcoaching.com/mpg/Griffey01.mpeg

Jimmy you ask “I still want to know why you deny that linear/directional components of the Major League swing exist? “

These clips can be advanced frame-by-frame. Your frame-by-frame analysis of his hand-path should help me understand what linear components you are referring to – other than during the stride which I already agree with.

Jack Mankin