the War Eagle

[djcarter1966]

If you look at the video you see that the 3B does only a slight rise and fall but the SS and 2B deep in hole taken bigger hop plus you have to learn the timing since being too late with your hop cold be a disaster. One thing it does seem to do is stop you from cheating or leaning one direction which is a good thing. Hey if it works and there are not a lot of obvious negatives go for it.

 

[JAD]

Dustin Pedroia has been doing that his entire career. It works for him!

Maybe it will catch on!

 

[JAD]

While I often believe that fastpitch fielding and hitting modeled after MLB is usually very effective. I'm not 100% sure that the absence of MLB doing something doesn't mean it's not still a good thing. Maybe the hop is most effective in fastpitch because of the smaller field/ the players are all at a much closer proximity to the batter= necessary faster reaction. Kind of like the same principle is seen that more fastpitch players wear facemasks and MLB does not

Fast reaction time is key in both softball and baseball. Baseball just has more time to make the throw with 90' bases.