Posted by: pikes1000 (pikes1000@yahoo.com) on Sun Sep 4 05:18:10 2011

> > I still believe we are are on the right path following bat speed .coms
> > circular hand path . Thou I must confess I did take notice when I saw
> > Albert Pujols being interviewed by Harold Reynolds. And pujols was
> > demonstrating on a bating tee how he pulls the knob to the ball.This is
> > not the first I heard a future or hall of fame player say they pull the
> > knob to the ball.
> >
> > Did any one else see the interview and hitting demo?
>
> Yes, I saw the interview and the hitting demo.
>
> Almost all cues that MLB hitters use are intended to PREVENT doing something, rather than cause something to happen. Knob to the ball is a cue to prevent an overly circular hand path. (AKA Casting)

Knob to the ball is not a bad que but people explain it wrong. People state that the knob starts at the ball but continues to the ball which would be hands to the ball and a linear que. What really happens is when shoulder rotation starts and you are trying to get the bat on the plane then you start the knob at the ball more so to get the plane of the bat at the level of the ball so if it is a high pitch you would start the knob at the level of the ball and so forth if it is a low ball but after you start the knob at the ball then what really happens is the knob is rotated around the body in a tight circular path that is the front shoulder that is pulling with the bottom hand. Also once the knob starts to get around the body it starts to go back toward the catcher from the pulling of the front shoulder back to the catcher.