- Jul 29, 2013
- 1,200
- 63
Do you think the two are mutually exclusive, hitting the ball hard vs. going yard? Your dd built her swing around pure power and contact. Some here promote the idea that hitting with power automatically comes at the expense of accuracy. I disagree. Especially because hitting the ball hard results not only in homers but also those screaming line drives and forced errors.I think we're getting into two different discussions here. Hitting for power, which can come down to pure physics, and hitting for average. The harder (faster) you want to hit a ball, the faster the swing needs to be. Sure, you also have to hit it perfectly on the bat. The person that has the best bat control, with the fastest swing, wins. From there you can branch out into 50 different things. Ok, maybe 500.
My DD has built her swing around pure power and contact. If she hits a scorching line drive, she's just as happy as if she hits a 260'+ bomb. She's hit pop ups that barely went over the fence, that she was upset about. Hard to believe someone coming off the field upset after hitting a HR. She's hit line drives that literally took the glove off the fielder trying to field it. That makes her happy. So, if you're batting over 400, and regularly inducing errors of balls hit so damn hard that fielders get scared when you come to bat, is it worse than the batter that hits 200 but gets 1 HR a weekend?
I still love one of the college coach's comments on a ball my DD hit. "Did that go through the fence or over it?!?!" Those are the comments she'll remember forever.