This Explains It
I saw Kansas and Florida play a month ago. Lots of terrible arm actions, especially in catchers. Stuff that baseball pitchers don't even do any more due to injury problems.
Tommy Hanson, Joel Zumaya, etc.
I assume this thread explains some of what I was seeing.
P.S. One of...
To get into this in more detail, I prefer that my hitters take balls during BP rather than swinging at any piece of crap that's close.
I used to watch Manny Ramirez take BP and it was striking how many balls he took (during BP).
How are you supposed to be patient and get a good pitch to hit in...
There's your mistake.
Were you watching the thing on Matt Kemp? If so, it was pretty much complete nonsense. For instance, the guy didn't understand that the hips can move without moving the shoulders.
He's lying.
The closest thing to what he's talking about is the scout school that MLSB runs.
There's nothing comparable for hitting coaches (which is part of the problem).
That's potential energy, but not what we are talking about. If you released that force, your arm would fall to your side, not hit me in the face.
A better example of potential energy in your personal violence scenario would be your holding a sledgehammer over my head or cocking and aiming an...
The problem with the statement above is that it doesn't make sense from the standpoint of physics or physiology, which is why I don't use fuzzy terms like "corner" in my teaching.
First, resisting forces don't store energy. It's more subtle than that.
Also centripetal force doesn't release the...
As I have explained before, Torres doesn't get behind the corner from the left side because he was coached out of it in an effort to fix his "problem" with bat wrap.[1]
I keep trying to put it back in, but his pro coaches keep taking it out.
In general, hitters are going to struggle getting...