Head Baseball Coach-Johnson County High School (Mountain City, TN). Psalm 103:17-18.
Northeast, Tennessee
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“Hands. Not wrists, not arms, not legs or any of the other things many batting coaches teach, but fast, strong hands are the key to hitting.”
Pete Rose on Hitting
How to Hit Better Than Anybody
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Al Leiter on intentional shakes to disrupt hitter. Shake back to what they originally wanted in the first place.
@atsbaseball_ (All the Smoke Baseball).
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This is so good from Coach @BirminghamRay.
“All swings begin with a linear movement. We start the swing with the hands.”
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“Your arms and your body work through the ball. When you think far, your body doesn’t work with your arms (George Brett on a good swing).
I want you to stay through, get your arms extended, and have a weight shift” (Brett on what Charley Lau taught him).
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“He’s got me staying here….. Once you get that feel of staying on the baseball you stay right there.”
Darryl Strawberry
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“I didn’t use body I used hands. I let my hands do the work. Guys don’t trust their hands.”
Daryl Strawberry
“When in doubt your hands will bail you out.”
Mark DeRosa.
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Deep diving on Frank Thomas. Hands get inside his turn (I told a hitter, “Get hands in before you turn”), not stuck back and left behind. Direct. Inside.
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Hands inside rotation, I had forgotten about that phrase. Can be a help for hitters whose front shoulder wants to lead the way, causing bat to drag, causing hands/arms to be held hostage by spin of body. @MattFritz1307
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“Cut the ball in half, you finish right, the ball will get in the air.”
The Big Hurt, Frank Thomas.
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Hands, Coach @BirminghamRay, hands!
Many hitters need to think “hands first” to keep from spinning off of the ball. Many, not all, but hands aren’t the enemy. They hold and help direct the bat.
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