Educated hands

[Work=wins]

Palm-up/palm-down is the result. Hitters hands are working from radial/ulnar deviation when whipping the barrel "down to" the ball.

I think top hand wrist extension is in there as well. Keeps the barrel up or through the ball. Hence Palm up. Take a look at Pujols ‘feel’. Too much radial is bad for a swing imo. Creates wrap and wrist angles you can’t quite come back from. More is not always better. I would say 90% of elites have that top hand wrist extended earlier than later.



Edit: wrist extension kills some radial deviation. Pujols is w prime example:

 

[_MIA_]

Too much radial is bad for a swing imo. Creates wrap and wrist angles you can’t quite come back from.

No shi*...yet you keep telling me to not worry about it

 

[Work=wins]

No shi*...yet you keep telling me to not worry about it

That’s the arms. Not her wrists from what I remember. Put up a swing

 

[TDS]

I think top hand wrist extension is in there as well. Keeps the barrel up or through the ball. Hence Palm up. Take a look at Pujols ‘feel’. Too much radial is bad for a swing imo. Creates wrap and wrist angles you can’t quite come back from. More is not always better. I would say 90% of elites have that top hand wrist extended earlier than later.

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Yea, I am not arguing against some top hand extension.

 

[_MIA_]

That’s the arms. Not her wrists from what I remember. Put up a swing

There is a radial deviation right before launch

 

[Work=wins]

There is a radial deviation right before launch

like Trout?

 

[_MIA_]

like Trout?

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Hers is bigger..(but not as big as it was before.. )

 

[Cannonball]

My main tiff is that the hands are along for the ride. That’s not the case in elite swings at all. They’re first in action. Yes everything ‘turns or stretches’. But hasn’t been released or contracted. Elites are trying to stay square and use that ‘turn’ to help slingshot the chest/arms/hands/bat. Not turn to drag it around and behind them. I think we’re on the same page CB.

Perhaps I am confusing you as to what I believe and I am glad that you think we are on the same page. We are. Also, bat drag is the result of doing all of this stuff wrong. I think that it is important for my hitters to understand the difference between drag and lag. In lag, the hand/connection is placing the bat at a point in the swing as the "rip" is just about to start. IOWs a pass-through that happens quickly. In drag, the barrel drops and the hands push.

 

[Work=wins]

https://x.com/baseball_coach/status/1275116384293396480?s=46&t=74Dw4rAZVw5EVj5KOre6XA

‘If I can get that palm there, I can go anywhere.’

‘You gotta get your HANDS in enough to get that barrel’

GOLD

 

[Cannonball]

Thanks for the great discussion. It has been a while since I have jumped into a hitting thread. I'm off to golf. The heat index for us today is 117-120. Tts been the same all week and I have golfed a minimum of 18 holes each day. Again, I appreciate the discussion.