Posted by: JCAZ (joeteg@gmail.com) on Fri Mar 4 13:14:31 2011

> > > > How are your results compared to the rest of the team?
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> > > Most guys on the team are ground ball hitters. I hit sharp line drives. Only one other person on the team believes in rotational hitting.
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> > Paul, according to some data I found.....72% of ground balls are outs....79% of fly balls are outs......26% of line drives are outs. I would stick with the line drives. Everything being equal, rotational mechanics will out perform linear mechanics by a wide margin.
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> Ever notice that coaches teach pitchers to throw so that ground balls are hit and then go teach hitters to hit ground balls?

I never considered that, but how true it is.

I just watched 4 days of HS baseball tryouts from the freshman to varsity levels. I noticed that there were very few line drives hit. Mostly fly balls and grounders. I would have to say less than 10% of the balls put into play were line drives from BP and scrimmaging. It could have been 5% or 2%, I wasn't really keep track of the specific numbers. Now there were a few monster flys that cleared the fence and some very hard grounders, but very few line drives. And from what I could tell, few, if any other than my son, were using true rotational mechanics. Although I do believe there are degrees to which some were using rotational principals combined with linear mechanics. Those were some of the better hitters. I was just amazed at the lack of line drives being hit.