Turning the barrel 5

[Work=wins]

Love all the oldie gifs bass, thanks! keep em coming. Frank Robinson? Hank?

 

[rdbass]

Kind of hard to work the barrel back up when your hands are at the same height as the ball.

 

[Work=wins]

There were several that had such a mindset when they played.

BUMP. Level swing , better down than up. Follow through is mostly level in the oldies. Slightly up because of momentum. Slightly down because down is better than up Ted said.

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[rdbass]

Short to:

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[julray]

It is semantics your all correct! FFS just showed what Stan and that era was thinking . If you want to get semantical. Stan turns(directs) the barrel to a percieved spot in line(inside) with the ball all the while keeping his barrel above the ball and inline so he can be direct as possible. His low finish is because he was on plane for a long time(level)and was on time . The oldies planed low pitches by bending down not by extending their hands/arms. If you extend down with your arms , they will come back higher because of the momentum of your swing.

That's what I said, . By extending your arms down to get the barrel on plane with the ball, your hands will naturally be higher which results in a much higher finish (like you said, due to momentum) ... Stan's hands are lower which means he does not have to extend down so much resulting in a flatter, lower finish. Stan's belt high fast ball follows the same path as a lot of the modern day swings on a letter high fast ball.

Love you RDB xoxo

 

[Mudders Brudder]

There were several that had such a mindset when they played.

Huh?

Ted seems to be contradicting himself.

 

[Work=wins]

So is the 'level swing' thought more to where the oldie strike zone was ? Arm pits to top of the knee. And the 'swing up' mentality today is because of the strike zone that is belt to top of the shin? So with that said do fastpitch swings need to have the oldie swing plane mentality since their strike zone is basically bottom of the letters to the top of the knees? Lmk if I should start a new thread for this...

 

[Work=wins]

Huh?

Ted seems to be contradicting himself.

Maybe Ted was slumping and took Pujols and Bonds advice ?

 

[Mudders Brudder]

It is semantics your all correct! FFS just showed what Stan and that era was thinking . If you want to get semantical. Stan turns(directs) the barrel to a percieved spot in line(inside) with the ball all the while keeping his barrel above the ball and inline so he can be direct as possible. His low finish is because he was on plane for a long time(level)and was on time . The oldies planed low pitches by bending down not by extending their hands/arms. If you extend down with your arms , they will come back higher because of the momentum of your swing.

Yes, but I also believe it's good to state where/what they were bending down from or with.....

....so as to remove any confusion of bending at the waist as some talk about vs bending in the knees as they actually did.

 

[Mudders Brudder]

Maybe Ted was slumping and took Pujols and Bonds advice ?

Only problem with that, is that the book that came from was out before he made that statement I believe. But yes, I also get that you were saying the facetiously. =)