Wish I had some recent video, but I don't. She had an indoor tournament this weekend, it was impossible to get a good angle of her batting. Here's are some pros and cons of her current batting performance compared to a couple of years ago
Pros
* Much harder to strike out at plate
*Ability to hit the change up
* Works pitchers late in the count, see's tons of pitches
*Higher batting average
*Better eye and patience (believe this has more to do with experience than technique)
Cons
* squared up hits aren't travelling like they use to.. line drives seems to have so much back spin and they die when they hit the ground
* Not many extra base hits
*at age 11 could hit ball 200ft, age 14 not coming close even when squaring ball... not just game, front toss as well
Guys what can cause this kind of drastic change, please don't say better pitching because I am seeing same results with me front tossing. She's obviously stronger and I believe bat speed is much better. I'm lost at this point. There are obviously some advantages in her hitting right now, and I believe this is a result in better sequence. I see girls using her bat with much less bat speed hitting the ball further than her. Coaches continually tell me she has so much bat speed, and her at bats prove that.. she never gets beaten with a good fastball, if anything she hits faster pitchers better. IDK anymore, I'm lost with this.
Will post a video as soon as I am able to. Only thing I can think of right now is she's not staying behind and through the ball, more slicing across it
BTW, in a batting cage when doing front toss I need to stand behind a screen or she will kill me, not time to react at all. She hits the ball very hard, people watching comment on it. A lot of people stop and watch her hit with younger DD's and tell them they should hit like that. How can this not translate to distance on the playing field??
Pros
* Much harder to strike out at plate
*Ability to hit the change up
* Works pitchers late in the count, see's tons of pitches
*Higher batting average
*Better eye and patience (believe this has more to do with experience than technique)
Cons
* squared up hits aren't travelling like they use to.. line drives seems to have so much back spin and they die when they hit the ground
* Not many extra base hits
*at age 11 could hit ball 200ft, age 14 not coming close even when squaring ball... not just game, front toss as well
Guys what can cause this kind of drastic change, please don't say better pitching because I am seeing same results with me front tossing. She's obviously stronger and I believe bat speed is much better. I'm lost at this point. There are obviously some advantages in her hitting right now, and I believe this is a result in better sequence. I see girls using her bat with much less bat speed hitting the ball further than her. Coaches continually tell me she has so much bat speed, and her at bats prove that.. she never gets beaten with a good fastball, if anything she hits faster pitchers better. IDK anymore, I'm lost with this.
Will post a video as soon as I am able to. Only thing I can think of right now is she's not staying behind and through the ball, more slicing across it
BTW, in a batting cage when doing front toss I need to stand behind a screen or she will kill me, not time to react at all. She hits the ball very hard, people watching comment on it. A lot of people stop and watch her hit with younger DD's and tell them they should hit like that. How can this not translate to distance on the playing field??
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