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Baseball Swing Path: How-To Increase A Hitter’s Strikeouts?
Notice the Chris Davis baseball swing plane is up, up, UP. Mandatory Credit: Debby Wong-USA TODAY Sports
Is Chris Davis taking more of an extreme uppercut on the baseball swing plane?
Is he not cutting down on his swing with 2-strikes?
Is he using an excessive barrel tilt, before he launches into the turn, much like Josh Donaldson did between the 2013 and 2014 seasons? CLICK HERE for this Athletics Nation post titled, “Josh Donaldson: Changes in Approach & Mechanics”.
Is he more susceptible to swinging at pitches out of the strike zone than say a Joey Votto? CLICK HERE for this great “Joey Votto on Hitting” FanGraphs.com article about the changes he made to his baseball swing path in 2013.
Or, is his baseball swing plane so stubborn as to not adjust to higher Effective Velocities (EV), according to this fantastic analysis by Perry Husband…
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Also, CLICK HERE for a Joey Votto video analysis I recently did. He is the ultimate Pitch-Plane Dominator!
Here’s another perspective, from a guy I admire because he will readily admit he was wrong – on national television!!
Check out the following video of Carlos Pena offering an explanation to the increase in MLB hitter strikeouts…
Look, hitter’s are dealing with hitting a pitch that, beforehand, they DO NOT know what:
- Pitch it is,
- Speed it is, and
- Location it is.
Sure, there are probabilities, but they’re almost NEVER 100% sure (stealing signs and/or a pitcher’s ‘tells’ aside).
Illustration from Ted Williams’s The Science Of Hitting
book on matching the plane of the pitch. The bottom image can even serve as the extreme uppercut if flipped upwards.
Hitters have to build a large margin for error into their swings, if they want to succeed.
Then it got me thinking…
Sometimes we can learn more from what not to do, than what to do.
Coaches & instructors, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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