That's why it's called a "stance" and not the "swing"...... No one can hit the ball having their bat on their shoulder.. or waving the bat high in the air
No argument but nothing to do with weird batting stances. It has substance but is still so randomly crazy it overshadows the point. Your like my gf I'm talking about the weekend she is talking next year
a hitting coach WOULD teach these if they helped their hitters. whatever little tweak, twist or step that helped that ultimately helped them reach the goal of successfully hitting the ball.
Rod Carew is a name that doesn't get mentioned enough when it comes to hitting! Absolutely phenomenal baseball player! I think he made the All-Star team nearly every year he played!
In the late 90s and early 2000s I'd do a lot of these at the batting cages. Back when I watched games everyday and knew all the stances from around the league. Mo Vaughn was a tough one to hit because he tilted his head. I could only hit slow pitch balls with his stance.
Mickey Rivers had a unique stance. Felix Millan choked up so much on the bat that it made his stance appear to be very unusual. Joe Morgan's armpit pumping was certainly different.
Honestly, Craig Counsell should have multiple appearances in this video. Just get rid of the more normal stances and replace them with a Counsell highlight.
OwYouMoron it might be because he wasn't as successful with that "throw it to me" arm raise. It looks like it' be hard to do, but he did make it look easy. ?
Surely some peoples' batting stance is as much mental as it is physical. Baseball is the most superstitious sport after all. Hey, if holding his bat like a rifle helps him hit, who am I to argue? Of the Giants, I like Hunter Pence's batting stance the most. It's so tense and twitchy, like he's about to fight you to the death over a piece of cheese at any moment. Second is Denard Span's, with how he scrunches his knees down during the windup.
@@baseballplayer5556 Nothing wrong at all, but his stance was highly unusual when he first started playing in the bigs. Virtually nobody else outside of Jeff Bagwell was keeping their feet past shoulder width, and everybody was either taught to step in the bucket or slide step to start your swing. It was quite a revelation during its time and by 2003 every single kid on our baseball team was being taught his swing as fundamental.
@@eauhomme thank you!!!! I’ve been looking all over the comments of this and another ‘weird stance’ video trying to find someone mentioning him. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody stand or hold the bat like that unless they were out of the hitting box or not ready to hit yet. I think because he played in Seattle and wasn’t one of the well known HOF’s from there, he isn’t talked about as much.
To me the only weird ones are where they set up with their hands pulled in close to their chest. Ted Williams baffles me as to how he was able to hit so well. In pictures his stance has the bat pretty much vertical, straight up and down and his hand in on his body just under his chest. How anyone can swing the bat around in that starting position in time to hit the ball is incredible to me. Also, Rod Carew's famous setup of already in the process of a swing is crazy to. If you've played the game you know you've always been taught to get the bat up and start high because gravity will get the head of the bat down... start low and you're going to be swinging under everything. It's no surprise that Carew didn't really have any power with such a stance. His career high in HRs in a season was 14 - twice. You can't get any torque behind a swing with Carew's stance. Carew was an excellent hitter though. Makes me wonder if he had a normal stance and could get some torque in that swing how many HRs he could've hit.... in addition to getting his 3,000+ hits and career .328 BA...... and 30+ SB potential. As for everyone else. Most of them have a weird setup, but if you pay attention when the pitcher starts his delivery they quickly adjust to a more traditional stance. It's why even as a kid when I played I never understood why people varied their stances or tried to emulate the pros...... you always end up in the same position so my thought process was why not just start in that position.
Youkilis for me, never seen anyone hold their bat in two different places horizontally over their head. That said it's also one of my favorite stances for that reason
I can imagine it took a while to time. Imagine all of those moving parts and trying to swing at a 99 mph fastball? Batista, Julio Franco, Tettleton and Tony Phillips had the most unique stance to me. I could've sworn Tettleton held the bat near his belt buckle. That might be my memory exaggerating it.
Knew Franco would be on there! Von Hayes, Jose Oquendo, Dwight Evans... Von Hayes (Phillies) had a really wide stance (at least at one point in his career), supposedly very good for being able to make adjustments on breaking balls. Jose Oquendo (Cardinals) had a wide open stance. He was at least 45 degrees away from being straight lined up with the pitcher, let alone the slightly closed stance most hitters use (he also could, in a pinch, play every position). And Dwight Evans (Boston), later in his career when he had a bit of a resurgence, stood sort of pigeon toed, with his knees pointing at each other. I used to like to try to imitate my favorite hitters. His stance was very good for helping you keep your weight back. Carl Yastrzemski (Boston), now that I think about it, did a thing where he started with his weight on his front foot, shifted to the back and then back forward. Jose Cruz (Astros) had a huge leg kick, the biggest I've ever seen. Reggie Jackson, sometimes on the follow through, would end up on his back knee.
He didn't know he did it. great pull hitter. he hit a lotta homers just inside the pole and you couldn't blow it by him great fastball, low ball hitter. Pitchers need to keep the ball UP on this guy or they could be in big trouble.
I was shocked not to see Ripkin, but also where is Mo Vaughn or Edgar Martinez?? Some stances in this list barely qualify as different let alone strange.
I’m a white sox fan and imma be honest, I never thought Paulie had a weird stance but I can see it. (I was at that World Series game and I just can’t describe how amazing of a moment that was. Will forever give me the chills.)
@@olliecrow3547 only thing i can see as “weird” is the way his bat was angled but even then i don’t find it strange…could just be we’re just used to it like you said.
You missed John.Wockenfuss, who was with the Detroit Tigers for almost 10 years. He was traded to the Philadelphia Fillies alone with Glen Wilson for the Fillies relief pitcher Willie Hernandez and utility player Dave Bergman after the 1983 season. The Tigers went on to win the World Series the following year.
I love Carew's stance. I basically used a mix of him and Mickey Tettleton. It helped me relax in the box. I didn't hit it harder, but it hit it better after I started doing that.
that's what I loved about playing baseball. you're taught the fundamentals of bringing the bat to the ball, and how to keep a fast and tight swing, not once in my years of playing baseball (12 years) has someone taught me or told me how to stand at bat.
Great vid. I wish there was a couple more seconds added to the beginning of each of these clips bc most of these guys with weird swings also have weird tics at the plate
When I first saw the title, I thought of Kevin Youkilis. Also if Alfonso Soriano is in this list, then Jose Reyes should be in it as well in my opinion.
My high school baseball coach pointed out to us that no matter how strang a major league player's stance may be at the beginning of their at bat they all have the same level text book swing as they make contact with the ball.
I once heard announcer Skip Caray tell tha viewers of an old Arizona Diamondbacks vs Atlanta Braves game that it looks like Tony Batista is killing snakes in tha batter's box with his strange peculiar hitting stance! Still makes me laugh every now and then when I am reminded of it! That was YEARS AGO!
I guess it dates me but the weirdest batting stance I ever saw was Dick McAulliffe, Tigers’ second baseman from the 1960’s. You can watch him at the plate if you check out the 1968 World Series clips. He batted left and he stood with his right foot pointing at first base. He held his bat so that the barrel was pointed straight at the pitcher. How he swung the bat without falling on his ass, I’ll never know. But if you pitched him inside, he would hit a home run right down the right field line.
I remember seeing him when the Detroit Tigers came to Anaheim to play the Angels, I still have no idea how he was able to hit the ball the way he did holding the bat like that....
I love all references to Tony Batista. Tony Batista is perhaps most noteworthy for producing the least valuable 30 HR, 100 RBI season of all time. In 2004, Batista hit a below-replacement .241/.272/.455, but somehow hit 32 dingers and drove in 110. By demonstrating their irrelevance, Tony Batista is truly the man who killed traditional baseball statistics.
Coco Crisp....best MLB name ever. Julio Franco is my favorite player ever, which brought me here. Bonds had best swing ever. Sucks that he ruined it. This is a great video...so many greats.
He always fucked the Yankees up man shit ,I loved shef thou,I ended up leaving the Yankees for the Mets ,I think Dustin pedrioa stance is fucking Wierd to add
I saw him play against the Astros in Houston. The ball was a low, hard line drive that I thought would drop for a double. Instead it got out of the park....fast for a home run. It seemed like the ball never got more than 20 feet off the ground.
I'm pretty sure darnaud struggled greatly with that batting stance, 2014 and 15 he was good but in 16 17 that stance came along and he batted like .160
A few from back in the day: Jose Cruz, Terry Whitfield, Tony Tarasco. Cecil Cooper's was almost identical to Rod Carew's. Bautista's was almost identical to Brian Downing's. If you start out pointing the barrel of the bat at the pitcher, you'd better have Gary Sheffield's bat speed. As bad-ball hitters go, Kevin Mitchell was right up there with Vlad, Pujols, and Ichiro, although his stance was fairly normal.
Chuck Knoblauch was the only one I could think of when the video started. Was 7 when the Twins won in 91 and being from MN that team is pretty ingrained in my head.
Great vid! But.... no mention of the man of a thousand stances, Cal Ripken Jr.?? The bat laid off, the violin, the wockenfuss, standing straight up, crouching way down?? A travesty, sir!
Crazy Canuck I remember watching the D-backs win the World Series when I was 11 years old and the stance of Counsel always stood out... but my favorite stances to mimic were Sheffield, Griffey and Bonds
I love how their stance BEFORE the pitch is different but then they just go normal
Ikr? Must feel at least a little uncomfortable
That's why it's called a "stance" and not the "swing"...... No one can hit the ball having their bat on their shoulder.. or waving the bat high in the air
true
Some are very smooth transitions, the last one is a good example.
Besides Jeff Bagwell
"If it ain't broke don't fix it"
Fact
@I’m a fat piece of shit no one is saying they are bad, they are just wierd
Wat ya mean he was a limp dick in his later years
Fax
Soccer sucks
I remember growing up and so many kids I played ball with tried to emulate Sheffield’s batting stance and our coaches were always pissed off lol
Lmao yep, when he became a dodger my dad coached all my little league teams and every kid would try to replicate it 😂
I tried it myself too... If I ever step in the batters box .... And I hasn't happened a lot in the last 10 years I'm 100% emulating Sheffield's stance
Facts. Every kid from that era tried to emulate Sheffield’s batting stance in practice and got bitched at by their coach of it 😂😂😂😂
I got my coach so pissed for copying Youkilis's batting stance but he couldn't bench me because I was batting .700
0:17 That one new kid on the team.
He do be hitting moonshots
😂😂😂
☠☠☠☠
Yeeeees
The 70's and 80's where a gold mine of unique stances. Brian downing, Cecil Cooper, Joe Morgan, among others.
Dusty Baker & Steve Garvey.
Joe (chicken wing ) Morgan he alway flap his arm like a chicken wing before he swung
Yep Joe was underrated. He was unaware of his arm twitch go figure. great pull hitter and a classy guy. he had an incredibly quick bat like Bonds.
No Cal Ripken Jr? He could’ve been on here 4 times with 4 different stances!
Lol he would change his stance in the same game
Eric Thomas he was so fun to watch
I was just looking up some of his videos and watched one where he talked about and showed his stances. Too funny.
Where's Andres Galaraga! The big cat!
Right!!!
I was having a slump, and my dad told me to try using Rod Carews stance. It helped tremendously 😂😂
same im not kidding
Same here except it was Chuck Knoblauch's stance which is very similar.
Yeah helps with lefties hitting in right feild
nice
Same scenario for me but Chuck Knoblauch. Ended up sticking with that stance all through school
4:25.... Sheffield started the at bat as a Met and finished the swing as a Yankee 😆
That's one hell of a swing
Rickey Henderson in his prime is the most dangerous, exciting player ever.
No argument.
Yeah because you have to pitch it in the zone so you don’t all him but he will pound the ball anywhere
He's My favourite player
No argument but nothing to do with weird batting stances. It has substance but is still so randomly crazy it overshadows the point. Your like my gf I'm talking about the weekend she is talking next year
Did you just have a stroke?
notice all the fans in attendance for regular season games back in the 80s and 90s.
BeefPapa I'm thinking a lot of those shirtless dudes rode bikes and jammers(bicycles) because they could
Adam Levine I call bullshit
Rich James just do the research then
BeefPapa uhhh people have lives? 😂
Cubs MLB Perfect Inning Gaming yeah, you’re right. No one had a life back then. Lol.
Eric Davis has the wildest stance of all time. Missed that one
Craig Counsell’s high batting stance is my favorite overall. It’s pretty odd and funny the way the held his bat high above his head. 😂
Maybe not weird. How about "stances that hitting coaches would never teach"
a hitting coach WOULD teach these if they helped their hitters. whatever little tweak, twist or step that helped that ultimately helped them reach the goal of successfully hitting the ball.
Kevin Moore damn why are you getting so offended?
Sam Jang that is honestly the top ten best comments ever!!!
cottagechskitty 😂😂😂
What coaches teach batting stances????????????
The Fact that Hunter Pence is not here is a travesty
Tiberius Lamar he has no choice to bat like that
Truth.
You nerd
The LegendaryGamer he has a illness that makes his bone stature weird
The LegendaryGamer yeah he has Scheuermann’s disease
Rod Carew is a name that doesn't get mentioned enough when it comes to hitting! Absolutely phenomenal baseball player! I think he made the All-Star team nearly every year he played!
I feel like guys like Gwynn and Carew don’t get the credit they deserve. Power or no power, those guys were tremendous hitters
Look at the strikeout probability percentage for Gwynn. NOBODY will ever do that again.
@@user-vg2ut8lp9e Couldn’t agree more!
Daaaamn that hurts you showed Youk on the Yanks not the Sox.
Thought the same exact thing
Hit me right in the feels. 99%of his days are with the Sox, and they pull a clip of him as a Stank.
Cause screw the red sox
@@chrisman3965 bad sox*
unique batting stances is a much better name...
X Trickshots yeah
X Trickshots weird and unique are semantical
That isn’t very clickbaity though
Kevin youkilis shake shake
Weird is weird...
Unique?Bullshit
The players that have weird batting stances all hit home runs
Rectrix Gaming not rod carew
Not all of them
Highligts
Its a highlight. They dont always hit home runs. They do from time to time, just like everybody else.
@@kenmendoza6932 hahahahaha
This video makes me wish I could go back in time. When baseball was dope
As soon as I clicked this i was like alright where's Tony Bautista, and there he was
A lot of these aren't so weird. But one that is missing is Garth Iorg, who played a few seasons for the Blue Jays in the 1980s.
I'll always remember Chuck Knoblauch's stance: he angled the bat 45 degrees backwards as if his wrists were completely relaxed holding it.
In the late 90s and early 2000s I'd do a lot of these at the batting cages. Back when I watched games everyday and knew all the stances from around the league. Mo Vaughn was a tough one to hit because he tilted his head. I could only hit slow pitch balls with his stance.
Mickey Rivers had a unique stance. Felix Millan choked up so much on the bat that it made his stance appear to be very unusual. Joe Morgan's armpit pumping was certainly different.
Honestly, Craig Counsell should have multiple appearances in this video. Just get rid of the more normal stances and replace them with a Counsell highlight.
OwYouMoron it might be because he wasn't as successful with that "throw it to me" arm raise. It looks like it' be hard to do, but he did make it look easy. ?
I remember one commentator likening his stance to someone cleaning their chimney.
Weird pitching wind-up/deliveries next?
good idea
yess please
yes good i will work on it
how do you get clip
i mean clips?
What about Ruben Sierra? He always looked like he was throwing the ball rather than hitting it. He had one of my all time favorite batting stands.
Sierra had a high leg kick in his early days.
Mickey Tettleton was a monster!!!!!!! One of my favorite Tigers ever!!!!
Surely some peoples' batting stance is as much mental as it is physical. Baseball is the most superstitious sport after all. Hey, if holding his bat like a rifle helps him hit, who am I to argue?
Of the Giants, I like Hunter Pence's batting stance the most. It's so tense and twitchy, like he's about to fight you to the death over a piece of cheese at any moment. Second is Denard Span's, with how he scrunches his knees down during the windup.
Justyn Hunter Pence had a disease and is basically forced to bat like that. He has no choice
Some of them are fairly normal looking stances. There are far stranger ones that you could have chosen.
*Albert Pujols what is wrong with his
Jay Buhner comes to mind. Stood almost straight up, feet close together, bat held in front of him almost straight up and down.
@@baseballplayer5556 Nothing wrong at all, but his stance was highly unusual when he first started playing in the bigs. Virtually nobody else outside of Jeff Bagwell was keeping their feet past shoulder width, and everybody was either taught to step in the bucket or slide step to start your swing. It was quite a revelation during its time and by 2003 every single kid on our baseball team was being taught his swing as fundamental.
@@eauhomme thank you!!!! I’ve been looking all over the comments of this and another ‘weird stance’ video trying to find someone mentioning him. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody stand or hold the bat like that unless they were out of the hitting box or not ready to hit yet. I think because he played in Seattle and wasn’t one of the well known HOF’s from there, he isn’t talked about as much.
@@joelmilten I never understood how he could make contact that way. His eyes dropped several inches as the pitch came in.
that gary Sheffield's batting was always my favorite
Such elite bad speed
I loved it too. he couldn't keep that bat still. great hitter. he could run too.
Jay Buhner was the most intimidating batting stance ever....
I wouldn't even consider most of these "weird".
+CSGaming 13 Go fuck off kid.
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I like weird, today's weird should really show how to love to hate murdering the ball leaving it in the field. Yeah
To me the only weird ones are where they set up with their hands pulled in close to their chest. Ted Williams baffles me as to how he was able to hit so well. In pictures his stance has the bat pretty much vertical, straight up and down and his hand in on his body just under his chest. How anyone can swing the bat around in that starting position in time to hit the ball is incredible to me. Also, Rod Carew's famous setup of already in the process of a swing is crazy to. If you've played the game you know you've always been taught to get the bat up and start high because gravity will get the head of the bat down... start low and you're going to be swinging under everything. It's no surprise that Carew didn't really have any power with such a stance. His career high in HRs in a season was 14 - twice. You can't get any torque behind a swing with Carew's stance. Carew was an excellent hitter though. Makes me wonder if he had a normal stance and could get some torque in that swing how many HRs he could've hit.... in addition to getting his 3,000+ hits and career .328 BA...... and 30+ SB potential.
As for everyone else. Most of them have a weird setup, but if you pay attention when the pitcher starts his delivery they quickly adjust to a more traditional stance. It's why even as a kid when I played I never understood why people varied their stances or tried to emulate the pros...... you always end up in the same position so my thought process was why not just start in that position.
Phil Plantier. I mimicked his stance during my sophomore year in high school, and proceeded to bat about a buck eighty.
Remember Sam Horn with the Red Sox?
I remember analysts calling Plantier's stance the "toilet seat" stance.
Aaron Rowand and Moises Alou stand like they’re about to take a shyt 😂😂
Batista's is the oddest to me.
Edwin Encarnacio's stance is wierd
LoganVgamez 549 he mean Tony Batista not Jose Bautista lol
Youkilis for me, never seen anyone hold their bat in two different places horizontally over their head. That said it's also one of my favorite stances for that reason
I can imagine it took a while to time. Imagine all of those moving parts and trying to swing at a 99 mph fastball? Batista, Julio Franco, Tettleton and Tony Phillips had the most unique stance to me. I could've sworn Tettleton held the bat near his belt buckle. That might be my memory exaggerating it.
Knew Franco would be on there!
Von Hayes, Jose Oquendo, Dwight Evans... Von Hayes (Phillies) had a really wide stance (at least at one point in his career), supposedly very good for being able to make adjustments on breaking balls. Jose Oquendo (Cardinals) had a wide open stance. He was at least 45 degrees away from being straight lined up with the pitcher, let alone the slightly closed stance most hitters use (he also could, in a pinch, play every position). And Dwight Evans (Boston), later in his career when he had a bit of a resurgence, stood sort of pigeon toed, with his knees pointing at each other. I used to like to try to imitate my favorite hitters. His stance was very good for helping you keep your weight back. Carl Yastrzemski (Boston), now that I think about it, did a thing where he started with his weight on his front foot, shifted to the back and then back forward. Jose Cruz (Astros) had a huge leg kick, the biggest I've ever seen. Reggie Jackson, sometimes on the follow through, would end up on his back knee.
Willie McGee got that “I ain’t tryna get hit by the ball” stance
I would have included Joe Morgan's chicken wing flap 🐥
He didn't know he did it. great pull hitter. he hit a lotta homers just inside the pole and you couldn't blow it by him great fastball, low ball hitter. Pitchers need to keep the ball UP on this guy or they could be in big trouble.
No Eric Davis? Seriously? Or cal Ripken? Ripken changed his batting stance every game
Eric Davis and Gary Sheffield have the quickest wrist and bat speed ever.
I was shocked not to see Ripkin, but also where is Mo Vaughn or Edgar Martinez?? Some stances in this list barely qualify as different let alone strange.
No Joe Morgan? WTF? He was the spark plug on those great Big Red Machines!! Leaving him out was a travesty!!
Eric Davis should have been an easy one
I love how loose and relaxed Davis looked...and then BAM.
I’m a white sox fan and imma be honest, I never thought Paulie had a weird stance but I can see it. (I was at that World Series game and I just can’t describe how amazing of a moment that was. Will forever give me the chills.)
I still don't consider it that weird. As a Sox fan as well, maybe I'm just used to seeing it?
@@olliecrow3547 only thing i can see as “weird” is the way his bat was angled but even then i don’t find it strange…could just be we’re just used to it like you said.
Stretch! Stretch! You can put it on the boarddddddd, YES!
Todd Zeil's was pretty strange. He just stood there like he was taking the pitch.
it feels like some of them try to look as awkward as possible. craig counsell always makes me laugh
Fred “crime dog” Mcgriff, Andres “big cat” Galaraga, Jay Buhner
0:37 wii sports when I’m not looking
I forgot about Coco Crisp. I love that turn he did and the tapping fingers.
I would also add Joey Wendle. His style amuses me.
4:25 I was like, gimme Gary Sheffield or gtfo lol mans stance/swing was pure rhythm, crazy how many of these were 90's dudes
This is a visual representation of the phrase “whatever works, works.”
You missed John.Wockenfuss, who was with the Detroit Tigers for almost 10 years. He was traded to the Philadelphia Fillies alone with Glen Wilson for the Fillies relief pitcher Willie Hernandez and utility player Dave Bergman after the 1983 season. The Tigers went on to win the World Series the following year.
Dan Ford should've been on here. He stood almost with his back to the pitcher.
I love Carew's stance. I basically used a mix of him and Mickey Tettleton. It helped me relax in the box. I didn't hit it harder, but it hit it better after I started doing that.
Could’ve cut out a few for sure, but no mention of George Brett? Hall of Fame. World Champion.
that's what I loved about playing baseball. you're taught the fundamentals of bringing the bat to the ball, and how to keep a fast and tight swing, not once in my years of playing baseball (12 years) has someone taught me or told me how to stand at bat.
Watching this makes me want to play baseball I remember when I played as a kid man that was fun.
Kinjii It's not too late man. I'm in an adult league for the first time since I was 12, and I'm 24 xD
I’m in softball but I’m sure that you will do great in baseball
That name 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gary Sheffield is so smooth he reminds me when you watch happiness baseball when they throw submarine
Great vid. I wish there was a couple more seconds added to the beginning of each of these clips bc most of these guys with weird swings also have weird tics at the plate
Jeff Bagwell's batting stances is pretty cool you can tell he's about to make a homerun
Lol
Gary has that stance you see in adult softball leagues from players who just know they’re slamming Homeruns all day
I remember Gates Brown. He would stand w/ his legs wide open. Man, he had power.
Nice video, that's what I love about baseball the individuality, my favorites were Moises Alou and Pete Rose.
I used to love Mickey Tenttelton. Hid stance was awesome..
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2:42 That’s a submarine swing
Mickey Tettleton, Julio Franco and Juan Gonzalez all had the strangest stances to me back when I watched them play.
my first thoughts were Counsell and Franco. Glad you featured them.
When I first saw the title, I thought of Kevin Youkilis.
Also if Alfonso Soriano is in this list, then Jose Reyes should be in it as well in my opinion.
KEVIN YOUKILIS ISNT HERE???
Find a video of Dick McAuliffe, the second baseman for the Detroit Tigers in the 1960s. One of the strangest stances ever.
My high school baseball coach pointed out to us that no matter how strang a major league player's stance may be at the beginning of their at bat they all have the same level text book swing as they make contact with the ball.
I once heard announcer Skip Caray tell tha viewers of an old Arizona Diamondbacks vs Atlanta Braves game that it looks like Tony Batista is killing snakes in tha batter's box with his strange peculiar hitting stance! Still makes me laugh every now and then when I am reminded of it! That was YEARS AGO!
Where the hell is Mo Vaughn?
Dark Lord of the Sith 😂😂😂😂😂😂 thought the same thing
Literally would look straight down, never knew how the hell he ever made contact
Paul Goldschmidt, Hunter Pence, Rickie Weeks Jr. and Obubel Herrara?
As kids we used to emulate Johnny Wockenfuss all the time. Way back in the box, back practically to the pitcher and fluttering those two fingers!
I still remember Al Newman from when I was a kid. He would bend over at least 45 degrees then rest the bat perfectly horizontal on his shoulder.
Bro Craig Counsel still makes me spit out my drink. I can't watch this video while consuming a beverage.
Bill Danforth
This became more about the homers than the stances for me lol
Tony Batista! He's been in Japan for a short time and I've seen him. He was a very interesting batting form!
Rickey Henderson has the most vintage bad ass classical dead ball era like batting stance ever.
Absolute beast 24 was.
I guess it dates me but the weirdest batting stance I ever saw was Dick McAulliffe, Tigers’ second baseman from the 1960’s. You can watch him at the plate if you check out the 1968 World Series clips. He batted left and he stood with his right foot pointing at first base. He held his bat so that the barrel was pointed straight at the pitcher. How he swung the bat without falling on his ass, I’ll never know. But if you pitched him inside, he would hit a home run right down the right field line.
I remember seeing him when the Detroit Tigers came to Anaheim to play the Angels, I still have no idea how he was able to hit the ball the way he did holding the bat like that....
I love all references to Tony Batista. Tony Batista is perhaps most noteworthy for producing the least valuable 30 HR, 100 RBI season of all time. In 2004, Batista hit a below-replacement .241/.272/.455, but somehow hit 32 dingers and drove in 110.
By demonstrating their irrelevance, Tony Batista is truly the man who killed traditional baseball statistics.
Gary Sheffield, Jeff Bagwell, Albert Pujols, and Barry Bonds were ma favorite swings of all time :)
Coco Crisp....best MLB name ever. Julio Franco is my favorite player ever, which brought me here. Bonds had best swing ever. Sucks that he ruined it. This is a great video...so many greats.
4:49 that does not sound like a bat.
Konerko is smart. 162 games, playing damn near everyday, I'd slack backwards and get comfortable before the windup too
He retired
OUTTA HERE OUTTA HERE OUUUUTTAAA HEEERE
*ball has bounced back into here and is rolling across the outfield*
I remember going to a 'Stros/DBacks game in the early 2000s and seeing Counsell's batting stance and thinking WTF! 😆
I remember Vladimir Guerrero on the Angels. God he was a good player
He always fucked the Yankees up man shit ,I loved shef thou,I ended up leaving the Yankees for the Mets ,I think Dustin pedrioa stance is fucking Wierd to add
I saw him play against the Astros in Houston. The ball was a low, hard line drive that I thought would drop for a double. Instead it got out of the park....fast for a home run. It seemed like the ball never got more than 20 feet off the ground.
Oh and I don’t see what’s weird about his stance
I'm pretty sure darnaud struggled greatly with that batting stance, 2014 and 15 he was good but in 16 17 that stance came along and he batted like .160
A few from back in the day: Jose Cruz, Terry Whitfield, Tony Tarasco.
Cecil Cooper's was almost identical to Rod Carew's. Bautista's was almost identical to Brian Downing's.
If you start out pointing the barrel of the bat at the pitcher, you'd better have Gary Sheffield's bat speed.
As bad-ball hitters go, Kevin Mitchell was right up there with Vlad, Pujols, and Ichiro, although his stance was fairly normal.
John Wockenfuss had the strangest batting stance on the late 70's Tiger team. He would flap his right hand while waiting for the pitch.
Little known fact: there is no existing footage of Rod Carew hitting a home run.
Some of these weren't that strange, but this is a great video idea, and it deserves a like. 👍🏼
Yea like idk why in the world Albert pujols was on here
Chuck Knoblauch was the only one I could think of when the video started. Was 7 when the Twins won in 91 and being from MN that team is pretty ingrained in my head.
Julio Franco will always stand out for me. And George Brett crouched on his back foot.
How in the hell did u forget Jim Leiritz from the Yankees. That pointy foot stance was hilarious
First one I thought of once I saw this was Andre Eithier.
Got the full Julio Franco going on there !
Great vid! But.... no mention of the man of a thousand stances, Cal Ripken Jr.?? The bat laid off, the violin, the wockenfuss, standing straight up, crouching way down?? A travesty, sir!
The three batting stances I'll never forget are; Craig Counsel, Tony Batista & Ken Griffey Jr.
My personal favorite swing is Griffey's, Cano is a close second to me.
Crazy Canuck I remember watching the D-backs win the World Series when I was 11 years old and the stance of Counsel always stood out... but my favorite stances to mimic were Sheffield, Griffey and Bonds
I remember Julio Franco in MPV 05... I always plunked him because of his ugly behind stance lol
Where's Hunter Pence at??
Nathanael Lingerfelt MVP 05, greatest baseball game ever
jdsr4c I agree 100%
I miss that series so much. Even the college games too.
Nathanael Lingerfelt lol good story
The last one juan Gonzalez's is one of the prettiest swings in mlb history right there with Griffey jr. And Ruben Sierra
Stances that actually work and the way to hit with power for a home run