Are you talking about the actual swing launch or the "gather" part of the swing? If you don't start any movement at all until you are able to recognize pitch location/speed you are going to get beat an awful lot
in my opinion.
AS far as I'm concerned, there are three positions to the swing previous to launch. 1) You have the ready stance. This is when they hitter first gets into the box and is relaxed (bat on the shoulder but watching the pitcher closely). 2) Then you have the set stance. This is when the Pitcher starts her motion and the Hitter goes into her pre-load (i,e, hands/bat raises into position pre-launch position.) 3) Loaded stance. Hands are over the back foot raised high loading the hands, bat tipped loading the bat, hips coiled and ready to fire, up on the front toe and ready to stride and launch. This is the position, if they build a big enough corner, which most of my hitters do, allows them to wait and see that first 4-6 feet of pitch after release from the pitchers hand in order to know when to launch their swing based on the timing of the ball speed and trajectory as to whether it's a ball or a strike.
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