Posted by: T Olson (timolson@home.net) on Wed Apr 26 11:46:35 2000

See my April 24 post -- outside pitches

I'm kind of in the same boat with my son. Is now rotational and seems to do much better closer to the plate. I think it is related to the rotational style that the hands stay closer to the body in a circular pattern. He also seems to do better farther up in the box.

Curious, how close is she now to the plate?



"""Ihave converted my girl from weight transfer to rotational but i never thought about her distance from the plate.When she was a weight transfer hitter she could reach the outside pitch from a distance well off the plate.When she converted over I didn't think to move her closer(4-5")to the plate.She was making contact but was hitting a lot of grounders.I had her move closer and she is back to hitting liners no matter where the location of the pitch.Why does the distance from the plate make a difference from one method of hitting to the other as it seems to in this case?