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Re: Rotational vs. Linear


Posted by: showme (danc@nothnbut.net) on Mon Aug 16 16:59:45 2010


> I am a junior varsity pitcher and while it is true that Barry, Sammy, and Babe Ruth made great careers out of rotational hitting I personally love to pitch against the teams that teach rotational hitting. A fastball with good plane and a good breaking pitch working both sides of the plate is all that you need with a team like this. This is because they keep their weight on their back foot and spin around an axis. An inexperienced hitter using this style of hitting is doomed for failure because they have not learned to cover the entire plate. They might get lucky and hit a flat fastball down the middle, but will be entirely clueless what to do with quality pitches in the four quadrants of the strike zone. They will either be jammed or hit it off the end of the bat. This is why I believe linear hitting is much better than rotational. Because you keep yourself in line with the pitcher, and take your knob to the ball no matter where it is pitched, it is extremely easy to hit to all fields (which rotational doesn't offer, look to Bautista's 30 homeruns to left field this year for proof), and almost all hitters will find that their strikeouts go down and their obp goes up. As for your claims about being able to hit the ball further while using rotational hitting, I just don't find this to be a true statement. You would point to Barry, Sammy, and Babe to dispute this put the only reason that they used this style of hitting is because they had sufficient bat speed and strength to easily launch a ball four hundred feet, or more easily put were home run hitters. I think that this is basically the key difference between rotational and linear. Rotational is an all or nothing hit the lights like in the natural swing: and linear is a relaxed, easy swing (it seems almost effortless) and when mastered you can easily place the ball anywhere you want on the field. So, if you can't easily hit home runs with a rotational swing, then I would suggest a linear swing, or you risk an increased output of popups, rollovers, foul balls, and strikeouts. Also for examples of linear home run hitters look to A-Rod and Pujols.

Key words..."I am a junior varsity pitcher"

Yes you are...I've yet to meet a pitcher that knew anything about hitting and the above doesn't help their case.

Keep your head down and good luck with the batter selection thing you do. Confidence is a good thing for a pitcher. I don't think anyone here going to tell you how to pitch, so keep those pitches coming to us low down rotational guys, and when you can't get out of an inning we both know it won't be because of a guys hitting mechanics...


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