Posted by: Tom Waz (sluggoking@msn.com) on Thu Aug 19 09:10:48 2004

After viewing the "final arch" twice my impression is that the mechanic work on the bag and and other areas seem to get the bat head in front of the hands on contact instead of the hands being ahead of the ball. Looks like every inside pitch and maybe even down the middle of the plate will be pulled foul! Why will that not happen? Thanks, Stone

It has to do with where you setup in relation to the plate and timing. Generally pitches down the middle will go back through the middle. If you set up closer to the plate those same pitches will go to the left half of the field (RH) because the bat will have to rotate further to get the sweet spot of the bat on the ball.

Don't let your concerns keep you from learning rotational mechanics, if done properly you'll do fine. - Tom Waz


balls on the inside half of plate will go towards left