Posted by: Jack Mankin (mrbatspeed@aol.com) on Thu Apr 29 20:38:16 2004

>>> If you could Jack, please reference for me for my own research those batters you have witnessed who keep their head still throughout their swings and in so doing appear to not have their heads down (chins in) at POC <<<

Hi TC2

I just went to, http://www.youthbaseballcoaching.com/swings.html and the first hitter was Bagwell. I would say his head position represents a fairly good number of batters I have charted. His chin does not lower as much as some I have seen. But then not all good hitters do either.

As I discussed in “You’re pulling your head off the ball,” when looking at Bagwell’s swing at full speed, many coaches might say he is pulling his head off the ball. As you can see in slow motion or frame-by-frame, his head is forced out long after the ball is gone.

Let me know your observations.

Jack Mankin