Posted by: Major Dan (markj89@charter.net) on Fri May 10 19:52:12 2002

It seems to me if you keep your hands in a circular path that they eventually pull off the ball and out of the contact zone. Don't the hands have to go linear (after rotation and before contact) to keep the bathead in the zone as long as possible. If they don't it seems that timing is next to impossible.

Mike-
The idea is to hit the ball during/near the end of rotation, not after rotation. The end of shoulder rotation is past square with the pitcher. At square with the pitcher the bat should be square with center field. So driving a ball up the middle would happen while the shoulders are turning, not after rotation stops.
The separation of rotation / then extension is characteristic of a linear type swing.