Associate Head Coach at New College in Sarasota,FL. Former Pittsburgh Pirates Hitting & Catching Coach
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Learn to control the barrel. There’s a reason great hitters train like this. It’s not because they want to hit back side grounders in a game. It’s because staying inside and through the ball are old terms that still ring true today’s game.
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The only thing I would disagree with ARod here is the fact that its Feel vs Real. It is 100% real. It's 2026 and we still have people on the internet that don't understand there are multiple aspects of the body that move the barrel through the zone, not just hands, not just lower half, not just trunk.
Like him or not, this is how you hit. This guy hit for average and power.
Teach this type of hitting again and the game will be better. It will be more exciting, it will be a much better offensive product.
Thank you Alex.
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'Ready at release' - Tension, control and ability to launch at release. Not needing to shift into the front leg for stability. Not needing to rotate pelvis into front leg for stability. Trout's lower half is fully ready at release. We aren't looking for foot down and hands back.
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When the rear leg & lower half isn't in this phase at release, there is going to be movements that require time to get the slack out prior to being able to actually launching your swing. Time is not something we have the luxury of. Lose total control over launch and timing
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If your main objective is bat speed, we can create higher bat speeds via movements and patterns that impact in-game hitting negatively. So many factors within impacting a baseball that bat speed doesn’t solve on its own and can be detrimental when that’s where the search begins.
45 games into the season & everyone thinks they can fix big leaguers that are going through normal issues. However this is the realest post I’ve seen in a while. HOW WE CREATE BAT SPEED MATTERS. It matters for path & direction, it matters for impact. Just having a goal of more bat speed is fools gold.
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45 games into the season & everyone thinks they can fix big leaguers that are going through normal issues. However this is the realest post I’ve seen in a while. HOW WE CREATE BAT SPEED MATTERS. It matters for path & direction, it matters for impact. Just having a goal of more bat speed is fools gold.
Everyone’s got a theory on Tatis. Steroids. Timing. Approach. Confidence. But if bat speed is still up… and exit velo is still high… why isn’t the power showing up? That’s where this gets interesting. I think there’s another layer people are missing. Watch the video.
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Javy Baez 🧵: We've seen the chase for years. There is certainly some mechanical issues that don't help but there is also a clear APPROACH issue. Either he has no real approach, a bad approach or just doesn't stick to the plan.
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When I make the "swinging zone" smaller, willing to take strikes and not give into umpires zones, I chase less. Would Baez ever have as good of an eye at the plate as Soto, no. But he would likely improve in all aspects of hitting because of it. Stay convicted to YOUR zone.
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Shout out to @theFortMcKenry for posting this video yesterday of Soroka's immaculate inning. Had to steal from that.
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Listen to great hitters talk about their swing and then relate it to what you see on video rather than dismiss it because you "see" different. You see what you want to see.
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161 plate appearances
.321 BA
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8 Home Runs
12 Doubles
4 Triples
.590 Slugging%
NAIA Sun Conference
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