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‼️My Swing Journey‼️

I’m here to help the players coming up but haven’t ever talked about the journey I had to take to learn what I know today. It’s impossible to explain in a post but here’s a little information🧵:

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This drill here is a golden drill. It helps the hitter learn how to articulate the rear hip properly which is an important part of developing an efficient swing.

In this drill, I’m training the relationship between the pelvis and the rear femur. The goal isn’t to slide forward or simply spin the hips open. It’s to teach the pelvis how to move relative to the back leg while maintaining a strong connection to the backside.

If done correctly, this drill helps hitters develop the movement pattern that allows them to gain speed down the back and behind the rear leg rather than pushing everything forward with the arms and/or chest.

I want the hitter to learn how to use the rear hip while maintaining the space and organization necessary for the torso and barrel to work around the backside.

#HittingMechanics #BaseballHitting #SwingDevelopment #HittingDrills #BaseballTraining

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Aaron Judge hit this ball out of the park, but does that mean it was a good swing?

Watch how steep this swing is compared to the swing we’ve become accustomed to seeing from Judge. His hands finish low, which is indicative of the push in this movement. He doesn’t appear to maintain the same backside organization or allow the barrel to work rearward the way he does in his more developed swing.

The ball still left the yard because Aaron Judge is an absolute freak of an athlete. He has enough strength and physical ability to overcome movements that would limit a lot of other hitters.

But that’s exactly my point. Just because a hitter gets a good result doesn’t mean the movement was optimal.

Judge wasn’t always the hitter we know today. His early career included significant struggles, and his swing evolved considerably as he learned to use his backside more effectively and keep the barrel working through the zone.

There’s a reason we don’t see him consistently swinging like this anymore.

When evaluating hitting mechanics, we have to look beyond the outcome of a single swing. The goal isn’t to find a movement that can produce a home run. It’s to develop a movement pattern that gives a hitter the greatest opportunity to consistently square up baseballs against elite pitching.

Results matter, but so does understanding HOW those results are produced.

#HittingMechanics #AaronJudge #BaseballDevelopment #HittingCoach #SwingMechanics

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One bad game doesn’t erase the work you’ve put in or the progress you’ve made.

Too often, hitters allow the outcome of their last at-bat to determine how they feel about their development. Learning to evaluate your performance objectively, rather than emotionally, is a major part of becoming a more consistent player.

Your last result is information, not your identity.

#Mindset #FYP #HittingDevelopment #MentalGame #BaseballTraining

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There are three facets to hitting: mental, physical, and mechanical. When a hitter is at their best, all three work together.

At the MLB level, physical ability is rarely the limiting factor. These guys are freak athletes, but that doesn’t mean mechanics suddenly stop mattering. In fact, I would argue that the better the competition gets, the more important efficient mechanics become.

Shohei is a great example. His ability to stay organized over his backside and maintain an elite pattern is a huge part of what makes him so special. Those movements aren’t accidental, and I don’t believe every way of swinging a bat is equally effective.

To me, Shohei checks both the physical and mechanical boxes. He’s an unbelievable athlete with elite mechanics, but even that combination doesn’t make a hitter immune to the mental side of the game. Watching him struggle over the last couple months of the season, I believe that was where he was fighting the biggest battle. When confidence starts to slip and frustration builds, even the best hitters in the world can struggle to perform at their usual level.

That’s why I love this moment. You can see the raw emotion after that swing. Every ballplayer has experienced a stretch where the game feels impossible, and sometimes one swing can release weeks of frustration.

I’m not a Dodgers fan, but I love seeing moments like this captured on camera.

Elite mechanics don’t make you immune to struggles, but they give you a foundation to trust when the mental side of the game gets difficult.

#ShoheiOhtani #HittingMechanics #BaseballDevelopment #MentalGame #Hitting

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Two swings, two very different patterns.

In the first swing, I stay organized around my back leg, allowing my torso and barrel to turn around my backside. The barrel works up through the ball rather than being pushed toward it.

In the second swing, I’m much more push-oriented, with my hands and upper body working out in front of my back leg. This creates a more downward path through the ball.

One swing works around the back leg and up through the ball, while the other works in front of the back leg and down through it.

#HittingMechanics #BaseballTraining #SwingMechanics #HittingDevelopment #FYP

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Mental Monday 🧠

Confidence isn’t something you force yourself to feel. It’s something you build through preparation, repetition, and results.

#MentalMonday #BaseballMindset #HittingDevelopment #MentalHealth #PlayerDevelopment

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I’m thankful for my parent and little league coach everyday. They stayed way more patient than any typical adults would have. The tears eventually turned to anger and when that didn’t work anymore, I had to learn how to almost not care while playing (that wasn’t till college). It was almost a feeling of indifference when I stepped in the box while I was in college. “It is what it is” and “who cares”became the mottos!

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@JohnnyVanBee @GoGoGolson Oh, same here! I was way too competitive and didn’t know how to process all of that as a kid 😅

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@JohnnyVanBee @GoGoGolson I agree. I think a lot of players give up before they ever get to see the results of the work they’ve put in. Progress isn’t always immediately visible, nor is it linear. Too many mistake that for a lack of improvement.

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@GoGoGolson @JohnnyVanBee The mental side of the game is that 6th tool that many struggle with 🧠

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‼️How to Get to the Inside Pitch‼️

The key to getting to the inside pitch is understanding that you don't need to shove your hands forward to get the barrel there.

We want to turn and tilt inside the baseball while maintaining space on the backside. The feel is working toward the middle of the field, but that direction should be created by how the body organizes and rotates, not by independently pushing the hands toward the ball.

When hitters start forcing their hands forward to reach the inside pitch, they often lose the space and adjustability that allow the barrel to work properly.
Let the body organize the direction of the swing while the hands turn the barrel.

#HittingMechanics #BaseballHitting #HittingDevelopment #SwingMechanics #BaseballTraining

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The goal shouldn’t be to defend a particular coach, phrase, drill, or hitting philosophy.

It should be to understand what the best hitters are doing and find the most efficient way to help others develop those movements.

I believe there are better and worse ways to teach the swing, and we should constantly be questioning whether our methods are actually producing what we intend.

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The Disconnect Between Hitting Instruction and the Actual Swing

One of the biggest problems I see in hitting instruction is the disconnect between what coaches demonstrate, what hitters actually do, and what the training produces.

I’ve talked about this quite a bit lately, but I think it’s worth expanding on. 🧵

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I think too often we confuse a hitter succeeding despite certain instruction with that instruction being responsible for their success.

Just because a hitter eventually figures something out doesn’t mean the process used to get there was the most effective or efficient.