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Shoehorning.
Bobby says ‘no pull’ countless times. Gwynn is pulling the knob to release the barrel later in the swing. Hardly similar. Bobby’s barrel is under his hands before he ‘turns’ to the ball. His plane is set. He has released the barrel. Tony’s barrel has not.
Bobby wants the hips and shoulders to turn you. Tony does not. He wants balance. When in balance the core powers the swing. Just a side note. It’s an automatic if in balance.
Throwing the head or controlling the head or articulating the barrel is what Tony was speaking of. He threw the head out and around to demo controlling the barrel. He says ‘you cut off your swing, when you throw the head.’
You do know that’s depth in your swing right? You know that’s the same thing I was explaining to you about a deep release point when you TTB right? You are cutting off your swing, when your barrel is committed too soon. Yes, you can back the ball up. But that’s all you can do. There is no adjustability with that approach. You can’t hit that inside pitch out front like Trout or Gwynn. You always have to hit it deep in the zone.
So if your looking fastball and you have to see it deep to hit it well. How do you adjust to something slower? How do you prepare for up and in and adjust to low and away? A much slower velo tunnel right?
You don’t. Your a guess hitter. If the pitcher has good offspeed with decent velo. Your in trouble. Or if they have good velo and hit the corners.
The release of the barrel needs to be adjustable. Even JD, Tewks guy knows. He talks of the barrel, but shows his plane with his hands?! LOL JD.
‘If the barrel gets under my hands back here, I’ve lost the barrel’.
‘I don’t want to get handsy’ ... Isn’t that the same action as Tewks demo?? Just sayin.
Somewhat of a retraction video from the mlb network vid with Derosa.
JD talks about being flat through the zone now, damage is done out front during your ‘upswing’.
If the barrel gets below the hands early, the swing plane is set. Keep the barrel above the hands until swing commitment not ‘go’ so you can be adjustable to depth in the zone. Same as staying inside the ball, just on a different axis.
If Gwynn were only "pulling" his hands forward until release there is no way the barrel path would be what it is which is pretty close to Cabrera's path:
Turn it forward. You can debate as to what the cause the rotational component of the hand motion is, e.g. whether it is hand/forearm dominated action or one which is dominated by the core, but I cannot see how anybody can say that the hands don't have a rotational component to their motion along with a linear component.