Posted by: mb () on Sun Sep 8 10:01:16 2002

Yes this site is called batspeed. And more batspeed is better.
> My question is:
> How important is it how quickly you can get your bat up to speed?
> Which is more important - highest batspeed or how quickly you can get your bat up to a lower but reasonably good batspeed.?
> Or would you rather have greater accleration or greater top end batspeed.?
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I would suggest the following:

Good contact on the bat. You need to find the sweet spot.

Speed or reaction time to the pitch. How else can you hit a 95 mph fastball, split finger, curve etc. a long swing might produce more batspeed but no contact.

Batspeed. How else can you hit it over a 400 ft fence?

They all all important for success.