Reading spins

Westwind · Aug 16, 2017

Tango said:
Good stuff. I remember one of the Mets rising players doing something similar awhile back. I can't remember his name but played 3rd and 2nd. He also fielded ground balls in parking lots with the numbers and colors on them if I remember correctly. I played around with this a little when I was coaching. Back in the day I taught science and would have one of my baseball players do science fair projects using a methods close to the above. Also, did projects using front eye dominance compared to back eye dominance.

Mark McGuire was doing some cutting edge training to help stabilize his eye muscles. His eye sight was very poor. Also used steroids. Lol

Why in parking lots? Interested in that.

Forgot to mention that dd who sees the ball better is cross eye hand dominant. In informal polling I found that pretty much all of the standout hitters she played with at young ages also were. The thing all these kids had in common was that they started playing at an early age AND hit practice a lot at that early age. In their cases, a lot of machine balls. Makes me think that the cross eye hand dominance was trained into them, not an accidental thing.

GunnerShotgun · Aug 16, 2017

PEPPERS said:
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-read-what-pitch-is-coming

The unabridged article link is much better:

PHP:

http://mlb.mlb.com/content/printer_friendly/mlb/y2007/m07/d11/c2081748.jsp

PEPPERS · Aug 16, 2017

GunnerShotgun said:
The unabridged article link is much better: 'I trac system' a real eye-catcher

For some reason the link is not working for me.

Something wrong with the Security Certificate.

GunnerShotgun · Aug 16, 2017

GunnerShotgun said:
The unabridged article link is much better:

PHP:

http://mlb.mlb.com/content/printer_friendly/mlb/y2007/m07/d11/c2081748.jsp

Fixed. The forum adds an "s" to "http" which breaks the link. You can wrap it it PHP tags to force it to display correctly.

Tango · Aug 16, 2017

Westwind said:
Why in parking lots? Interested in that.

Forgot to mention that dd who sees the ball better is cross eye hand dominant. In informal polling I found that pretty much all of the standout hitters she played with at young ages also were. The thing all these kids had in common was that they started playing at an early age AND hit practice a lot at that early age. In their cases, a lot of machine balls. Makes me think that the cross eye hand dominance was trained into them, not an accidental thing.

If I remember correctly it was to use to a very fast surface and he was using it to get ready to play on turf. Before all the open stances and gorilla ball most hitters were front eye dominant or cross dominant. The open stance was originally used to help hitters see with the back eye.

Chris Delorit · Aug 16, 2017

Westwind,

While I wouldn't speak for the Met's player you've mentioned, I'll say that I'd use the parking lot in a way to speed up the play, as well as taking out alot of the bad hops associated with dirt & turf relative to vision training.

As a young player, and especially for infield training, I had at least 2 or 3 brick alley buildings to use to simulate a batted ball. One was straight brick and another was rock face (for any brick masons or tenders out there

). The rock face was exceptionally good for D reaction, breaks and angles. Tennis balls, racquet balls, rubber balls & even Kmart gumball machine super balls can keep a kid busy for hours.

Chris

L.J. · Nov 25, 2017

I wish they made this for Fastpitch
seamtrak

(http://seamtrak.com)

L.J. · Nov 25, 2017

Any idea on why the link gets changed by the forum ?

Tango · May 3, 2018

Read a Tewks article on his paid site about reading arm speed, wrist turn, and fingers today. Similar to what I posted. He also recommended on a 4 seem guy to see the top of the ball, sinker pitcher bottom of the ball, and look at the inside of the ball (dill work).

How does this relate this relate to fastpitch? I have a lot harder time seeing it in softball.

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