Let it get deep!!!
I hear this a lot from hitting coaches.
For the life of me I don't understand! I've coached a ton of kids a lot of different skill sets, but I'm primarily known as a PC. I understand the balls movement and how to achieve that "late break" we hear so much about.
My point is I love teams who "let it get deep" in an attempt to give the batter an extra 1/100 of a second to read the spin and location... all that really did is allow the spin to move the ball even more making it even harder to hit. Secondly, if its an inside pitch, at best the hitter will make contact on the handle. Unless I'm missing something, that's about the worst advise we can give a hitter. I want my hitters to contact the ball where its pitched.... out front on an inside ball, and at the plate on an outside ball. Never purposefully let it get so deep that she can't get extended and is forced to wrist roll. Its so frustrating watching a kid try to make this adjustment of hitting an inside rise or screw while "letting it get deep"... so now the parents continue to pay that "high level" hitting coach $50 an hour while the poor kid can't seem to hit anything other than weak dribblers towards the 3-4 hole.
Can someone shine some light on this for me?
I hear this a lot from hitting coaches.
For the life of me I don't understand! I've coached a ton of kids a lot of different skill sets, but I'm primarily known as a PC. I understand the balls movement and how to achieve that "late break" we hear so much about.
My point is I love teams who "let it get deep" in an attempt to give the batter an extra 1/100 of a second to read the spin and location... all that really did is allow the spin to move the ball even more making it even harder to hit. Secondly, if its an inside pitch, at best the hitter will make contact on the handle. Unless I'm missing something, that's about the worst advise we can give a hitter. I want my hitters to contact the ball where its pitched.... out front on an inside ball, and at the plate on an outside ball. Never purposefully let it get so deep that she can't get extended and is forced to wrist roll. Its so frustrating watching a kid try to make this adjustment of hitting an inside rise or screw while "letting it get deep"... so now the parents continue to pay that "high level" hitting coach $50 an hour while the poor kid can't seem to hit anything other than weak dribblers towards the 3-4 hole.
Can someone shine some light on this for me?