The only steroid needed is a $400 bat. Your daughter can pick her flavor.
Got that (though it was $178 - 2018 LXT). I wouldn't know where to get steroids anyway.
The only steroid needed is a $400 bat. Your daughter can pick her flavor.
Nope didn't miss it.. and that is a factor (maybe THE factor) for the HR numbers but that would be one hell of a "juicing" in order to be able to account for the strikeoutsI think some of you missed the part where MLB stated they needed to do something about the juiced ball.
Makes sense. Hitters are being taught to swing for higher launch trajectory. This reduces the area that the bat is on plane with the ball. This is indeed creeping into softball. A lot of line drives are outs. Home runs are not. Even though you may reach base more often. It is still so difficult to score from the bases.
It is starting to make its way into softball. DD has been to a couple of camps where the hitting philosophy of the program is flyballs, HRs and "we don't care how much you strike out as long as you are hitting in the air".
One coach told me they would prefer a strikeout with the hitter swinging for the fences when there are runners on 2nd & 3rd with 1 out instead of a groundball to 2B.
We we're just at a visit where this was basically said also. They want you to hit 10 to 12 HR's and not too worried about strikeouts. And they were heavily into metrics and video.
Whoa...this is exactly the opposite of true.
Swinging with a slight uppercut puts the bat on plane for a longer period of time. This is true even in softball (because the ball is dropping despite what some believe).