Posted by: Jim (Jim@TheBatJack.com) on Mon Jul 4 11:23:54 2011

This is all relative to what the individual believes to be linear. The path that a pitcher launches a baseball into is a linear path, however there was an "arm circle" that created that path of the ball.

The best hitters try to create a linear path with their barrel through the pitch. They naturally create this with a hand path that is arced.

Not overly forced to be arced, but indeed arced.