Posted by: Freddy (illburnya@aol.com) on Fri May 26 09:19:44 2000

> Tom,I fully understand Jack's theories and mechanics and
agree with some of them,just not all of them.All the styles work
well.....when the pitch is in the location you want and that is my
point.Once you get to a certain level of pitching,how the batter
adjusts when fooled is the difference.If you are rotational looking
for inside fastball,what adjustments do you make if fooled low
and away? I think we confuse hitting with homeruns.Please don't
anyone tell me Sosa is a great hitter because of the homeruns
unless they want to talk about career strikeouts also. The great
hitters in history all made adjustments during a swing and
understood that the pitch location dictates what you can do with
it.

> I think the last post brings up a good point. There seems to an
obsession with the home run. Most of these posts seem to
mention only McGuire and Sosa. They are great home run hitters
but I personally would rather try to learn from great all around
hitters. Hitters who hit for average as well as power and can hit
to all fields. Names like Arod and Piazza come to mind. I find
Piazza's opposite field bullet home runs more impressive than
Big Mac's pulled fly ball home runs. Just my humble opinion.