Thanks for the video. Japanese legend Sarahadu Oh used to swing samurai swords on pieces of paper that were hung on ropes, to practice his attack angle, and his stroke became the standard used by Japanese players today. So your lesson is on point with what he coaches.
Man Love this...I was taught to hit down on the ball, it was the program that was Brought up in. We had success, drafted twice but when I look at VCR tape "showing my age" some of the times I really drove the ball it may have felt down but was more with an upper swing. My son is being taught this here in DFW area by TaylorMade Baseball. When I saw it, heard their philosophy and thought about it, it just made sense. He's a little guy about 100lbs, but everyone would tell you, has a lot of pop and really drives the ball. What's crazy is that when people ask where we take hitting lessons they still don't get it. And I hear how some of these high school coaches go and jack up some of these hitters, trying to correct their swings making them hit down? ....Anyway appreciate you stuff Matt.
I was also taught to hit down, and my coach in high school was previously in mlb. I think it was because he wanted more guys on base vs teaching like Matt demonstrated how to drive the ball. It was all about getting on base for our HS coach.
The fact that most pitches come in on a slight downward angle means that in order to keep the bat in the contact zone longer your bat path has to have a slight upward angle. It simply gives you a better chance of making contact which we can all agree is a positive despite what people think about launch angle.
Leaning on that bat like a boss. Haha. I don’t know why people get so uptight about this topic....probably because they don’t understand it, but they think they understand it. You explain it very well. I understood these concepts intuitively, but could never put it into words so clearly. Thanks for really clarifying this issue! Cheers!
Love the videos!!!! Agree 100 percent on launch angle. Growing up we were always told to swing down which is obviously wrong if done in that manner. However every kid is different and every kid learns and attacks the game differently. With that said, telling a young child to swing up could be a problem, unless telling him to do so makes him keep the bat in the zone longer that results in a slight upward angle swing. Same could be said with swinging down or level. As a coach you just have to be able to notice that player’s tendencies. Thx coach. Look forward to more videos.
Hey Matt, your instructional and advice videos are gold. Your swing teaching jives exactly with swing explanations from guys like Kris Bryant and Edgar Martinez and you are so right about some great MLB hitters saying they are doing one thing and doing another. In order to meet a pitch head on the back shoulder has to be lower that the front, contradicting the old clichė "don't drop your back shoulder" instruction. Can you speak to technique when hitting a high strike? It seems that might be the hardest pitch to hit as it would require a lesser bat plane angle, or even no angle catch up to. I have heard more than a couple MLB players say they won't or shouldn't even swing at this pitch, knowing their particular swing is not best suited to hit it. I saw Hall of famer Jim Thome talk about adjusting his swing to a high strike which did seemingly make sense.
To hit a higher pitch the batter has to level out the swing more. It's much more difficult to swing slightly up on a high pitch (chest high area) than a lower pitch (below waist) because the angles tend not match in that situation
I feel like watching this channel makes me know more about baseball than people that actually watch baseball. I haven't watched a baseball game since the Phillies won the world series. Love you matt
People completely misunderstand Launch angle + Exit velocity metrics. The whole point is to get a hitting metric independent of fielding. You can statistically categorize rather accurately what LA+EV's lead to outs, singles, doubles and home runs (triples do not group nicely with any particular angles/velocities, they are mixed in with doubles). You can better evaluate what sort of hitter a guy is, especially with small sample sizes. It's a measurement tool that cuts out the random luck inherent in the game which is why Big League GM's are so enamored with it. It is not a training philosophy.
Most important part of this is "build a good swing, not a good swing for right now" who cares if you bat .750 in U11 if you can't get the ball out of the infield in high school. Great video.
Interesting question this brings: fast-pitch softball will still use the “chop” on occasion as an alternative to bunting, and I’ve read that this was also common in baseball around the turn of the 20th Century. Why is this no longer done?
Pitches are much harder to hit generally, so it's harder to make good enough contact to place it where you want (which is the point of the chop hit), and fielding is also much better so it's easier to get thrown out.
I know its a little late, but its not launch angle, its exit velocity. If you think about the ball falling toward the strike zone, the best way to maximize the exit velocity is the match your barrel's swing trajectory to the ball's fall rate. Since balls in the lower part of the zone are easier to get the barrel behind with controlled lift, It requires a higher launch angle to "square up". I think we might see a shit toward using more of the top half of the zone to limit the reliance on hitter launch angles.
Thanks for the video. Thoughts on training aids like Backspin tee or launch angle tee? If you simply look at the layout of the baseball field what area of the field contains more open space lending itself to the possibility of more hits: the vast green grass area defended by 3 players or the rectangular dirt area defended by 5 players? What do you hear from many pitching coaches: “get us a ground ball”. Why would you want your hitter to do exactly what the pitcher is aiming for?
Thanks. I would love to hear your feedback if you or your players do have a chance to use them. I just got a Backspin tee for Christmas and my 12 year old hit with it today.
Launch angle, velocity, front/backspin are all part of the equation. “Launch angle” is just the easiest to summarize. As long as line drives create a higher hit percentage than ground balls, swing for line drives.
Let's say that a pitcher is 6'4" and he is standing on a 10" mound, throwing the ball to the catcher, who catches the pitch 18" off the ground. Ideally, the batter's swing needs to be on the same plane as the pitch, in order to hit it well. The same angle of the pitch as the bat. By virtue of the fact, it would be a slight upper swing. We were taught to swing level, old school.
This actually got me cut from my high school team. My coach said I have a “jeterian” swing. I’m a righty and hit the ball the other way and low liners. They wanted a higher launch angle and a more power hitter. Oh well!
Your coach was an idiot if he cut u for not swinging up!!! Hitting the ball the other way helps during a hit and run, moving the runner from second to third, and with a runner at 3rd the 3rd baseman plays even with the bag, so you hit the ball away from him. These dudes are killing kids. There are no bad hops in the air. There are no bad throws if you hit the ball in the air.
Whats the difference between a line drive and a blooper, if the overall result is a base hit. Why is a line drive preferred over a blooper?Love your vids btw
Because line drives result in base hits far more often than bloopers do. The stat line might look the same for that one play where a blooper dropped on for a hit, but over a large sample set far more line drives will result in base hits than soft bloopers. In baseball there’s a factor of luck and random chance. So you want to create a situation with the highest chance of a positive outcome for you despite the fact it might not always work out how you want. The most extreme example might be if you hit a weak grounder with the bases loaded and the fielder makes an error resulting in 2 or 3 runs scoring vs a hard hit line drive that gets caught in the infield and results in a runner getting doubled up and an inning ending double play. The hitter simply got extremely lucky that the defense royally screwed up in the first example while in the second the hitter got extremely unlucky hitting it hard directly at someone while the runner was going in the pitch instead of waiting for the liner to make it through to the outfield. The vast majority of the time if you hit a hard liner with the bases loaded it will be a base hit and score multiple runs. Just like the vast majority of the time a weak ground ball with the bases loaded will simply be an out and possibly a double play with no runs scored. So hard hit line drives in play regardless of outs or base hits is a great indicator of how productive a hitter will be. It removes luck and random chance from the equation. And over a large enough sample set things always even out. Guys that hit a lot of hard line drives over enough at bats will inevitably generate a high batting average regardless of some bad luck on hard hit balls right at the defense.
Charles Hsieh Submarine pitches tend to have less positive vertical break due to the way they are released. This will cause them to descend quicker, which counters the initial upward angle.
@@johnvolpert8295Pinwheel or merry-go-round? Having the bat rotate like a pinwheel will give you a better chance of hitting the rise ball too. Of course there is the age old debate 'do rise balls really rise?'
Rosanne Volpert www.pitchsoftball.com/Page11.html In short, rise balls don’t really rise, they just happen to descend slower than fastballs. Fast pitch players also face mostly pitches that aren’t rise balls, so even then it is clearly more effective to swing up through the ball. Additionally, here’s an article about swing plane and the differences in ground balls and fly balls. www.fangraphs.com/tht/ground-balls-a-hitters-best-friend/ It details pretty well why all hitters, including contact hitters, should be swinging up through the ball.
If a guy is small, people tend to play such people more shallow. A ball to the warning track, that’s an out for a bigger guy, is extra bases for him. It will probably be a triple as a result also. “Line drive with carry!” Well put!
"Arod" lost me on a video he did a few years ago. He said something like the term "launch angles" is bad - only to then have him advise to swing down on the baseball to get the baseball up in the air; just like in golf (so his launch angles is down). The term "launch angle" is confusing because there is also the term called "launch" (meaning when the front foot lands and the bat is in the proper technique as you have explained) - when the batter still needs the sequence of connecting; bat lag; barrel turn; etc. Maybe the term should be called "barrel release angle".
Hi I am a college baseball player and I don’t believe in this because putting the ball in the air leads to more outs for me. I’m a gap to gap singles hitter. Also the uppercut swing path leads to more strikeouts and I can’t play that game. A prince fielder type can strike out a lot and hit home runs but if me a short stocky guy that is about contact can’t strikeout. Without launch angle I hit .500 without launch angle in Southern California. Thanks for all your videos man.
Steve Israel I disagree with dropping your elbow and back shoulder to create a uppercut swing. This just leads to more strikeouts and pop ups. Only a select few can strikeout 200 times a year and hit enough home runs to offset that. As my kind of player if I strike out a lot I don’t play. And in big games getting on base and doing the little things win games more then a all or nothing approach. I have many former pro players telling me this launch angle is not right. In time teams will not be a able to take the mass strikeouts and will gain more of an advantage having some line Drive on base hitters that give good at bats and play a more well rounded game
Josh Donaldson in a video on the same subject: "Kids, if you're watching this... if your coach tells you to hit down on the ball, say NO. No one is going to pay you to hit balls on the ground, but if you hit balls in the air, someone is going to give you a lot of money for that." He made it about money in his example, but the message was the same as this video: You don't want to swing downwards, but up through the zone. That's how you're going to be a successful hitter.
Which sucks. Home runs are up, strike outs are up, popularity is way down, the home run is almost more prevalent than the double, it's lost all its cool factor. You shouldn't have more than a handful of guys hitting 25 or more home runs.
@@staidenofanarchy A handful? Let's not get crazy. That hasn't been the case since the 60s-early 70s. There should be more like 5,000-5,400 total homers a season, which is about what it was during the late 90s and 00s.
The way I see it even if you are only hitting singles you want your bat going up through the zone because you will get that spin. Sometimes that spin is the difference between an out or a single into XBH.
I just saw this video from A-Rod where the entire video he criticizes launch angel and talks about being direct to the ball. He keeps talking about how he feels when swinging, but not what he actually does in the game. Enjoy. th-cam.com/video/yPXS-EyOmLA/w-d-xo.html
That's all a lie. You can not put back spin on a ball by hitting up. Why do golf balls jump off the ground. You hit down on it to give back spin. Down at contact creates line drives that carry because of back spin
Ted Williams said a slightly upward swing and I garantee if there was statcast back then he'd have been at the bottom end of launch angle. He stayed in the zone which is why he carried a high batting avg with his power. He didn't swing like Kris Bryant or Gallo. Every swing has a upward path at some point, no one is arguing that, but exaggerating it like Gallo or Bryant leads to more strikeouts, shit avg, and pissed off fans. Christian Yelich avg launch angle is 4.7. he pisses all over you clowns that say flat is no good. Launch angle equals .218 avg 26 homeruns 62 RBIs and 200 strike outs and making TH-cam videos about hitting after you flame out in the minors.
We promote slightly up through the ball. Lots of people actually argue that. Many still say to swing down through the ball. That is what the video is about
@@AntonelliBaseball I'd like to see you do a video on Christian Yelich and explain how he murders the ball and has a 4.7 avg exit angle. It don't get any flatter than that and he smashes the ball for power and average. I have a problem with guys teaching Joey Gallo's swing to a 8 year old. That's a problem. 99% of kids can't pull that off they don't have the talent and it's one of the reasons baseball is no longer liked by lots of kids. What's wrong with a 8 year old learning to put the ball in play? My issue isn't with you it's with guys like Josh Donaldson promoting selfishness. They don't pay me for grounders set hitting back 100 years. I coach youth ball and I'm smart enough to know I can't win with selfish me first players. I teach my kids fundamentals and situational hitting. There's a time to have a major rip at the ball, bit there's also a time to put team first and move the runner over when you don't have a favorable count. Nobody puts out videos on situational hitting or say hey maybe with 2 strikes late in the game you should shorten up and find a hole. That's my issue. I appreciate the response and although I don't agree with some of your approaches, i do use some of your stuff to help. Enjoy the day
Jeremy Blascoe we definitely don’t teach being uphill as much as some MLB players. Most of the videos getting play are on how to create bat speed, how to drive the ball. Videos on how to move a runner over aren’t going to get many views. Doesn’t mean we don’t teach players how to do that at times, but we don’t really make many videos on it.
What about launch angle in men’s slow pitch softball?
Will drinking beer in the dugout help me achieve proper launch angel?
yes it will brong many angels
Absolutely! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hell yeah
LOL
Calling a swing a “launch angle swing” is like calling a pitch a “miles per hour pitch”
Haha good point!!! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for the video. Japanese legend Sarahadu Oh used to swing samurai swords on pieces of paper that were hung on ropes, to practice his attack angle, and his stroke became the standard used by Japanese players today. So your lesson is on point with what he coaches.
Man Love this...I was taught to hit down on the ball, it was the program that was Brought up in. We had success, drafted twice but when I look at VCR tape "showing my age" some of the times I really drove the ball it may have felt down but was more with an upper swing. My son is being taught this here in DFW area by TaylorMade Baseball. When I saw it, heard their philosophy and thought about it, it just made sense. He's a little guy about 100lbs, but everyone would tell you, has a lot of pop and really drives the ball. What's crazy is that when people ask where we take hitting lessons they still don't get it. And I hear how some of these high school coaches go and jack up some of these hitters, trying to correct their swings making them hit down? ....Anyway appreciate you stuff Matt.
I was also taught to hit down, and my coach in high school was previously in mlb. I think it was because he wanted more guys on base vs teaching like Matt demonstrated how to drive the ball. It was all about getting on base for our HS coach.
I know ill be a better hitter this 2019 season thx to you and these vids Coach. MUCH RESPECT
Awesome!!!
It’s better to be pissed off than pissed on. Just remember that!
the president would disagree lol
Nicholas Brown 😳🤣🤣🤣
Hahah!
The fact that most pitches come in on a slight downward angle means that in order to keep the bat in the contact zone longer your bat path has to have a slight upward angle. It simply gives you a better chance of making contact which we can all agree is a positive despite what people think about launch angle.
Robert Hull
Exactly. Was about to say this.
So should fast pitch softball players swing level or slightly down?
@@johnvolpert8295 I would imagine if your following the same philosophy.
@@johnvolpert8295 No. Even in softball the pitch drops so you should swing slightly up.
Leaning on that bat like a boss. Haha. I don’t know why people get so uptight about this topic....probably because they don’t understand it, but they think they understand it. You explain it very well. I understood these concepts intuitively, but could never put it into words so clearly. Thanks for really clarifying this issue! Cheers!
Love the videos!!!! Agree 100 percent on launch angle. Growing up we were always told to swing down which is obviously wrong if done in that manner. However every kid is different and every kid learns and attacks the game differently. With that said, telling a young child to swing up could be a problem, unless telling him to do so makes him keep the bat in the zone longer that results in a slight upward angle swing. Same could be said with swinging down or level. As a coach you just have to be able to notice that player’s tendencies. Thx coach. Look forward to more videos.
Thanks!! Thanks for watching!
Hey Matt, your instructional and advice videos are gold. Your swing teaching jives exactly with swing explanations from guys like Kris Bryant and Edgar Martinez and you are so right about some great MLB hitters saying they are doing one thing and doing another. In order to meet a pitch head on the back shoulder has to be lower that the front, contradicting the old clichė "don't drop your back shoulder" instruction. Can you speak to technique when hitting a high strike? It seems that might be the hardest pitch to hit as it would require a lesser bat plane angle, or even no angle catch up to. I have heard more than a couple MLB players say they won't or shouldn't even swing at this pitch, knowing their particular swing is not best suited to hit it. I saw Hall of famer Jim Thome talk about adjusting his swing to a high strike which did seemingly make sense.
Thanks!!!! Thanks for watching!!
To hit a higher pitch the batter has to level out the swing more. It's much more difficult to swing slightly up on a high pitch (chest high area) than a lower pitch (below waist) because the angles tend not match in that situation
I feel like watching this channel makes me know more about baseball than people that actually watch baseball. I haven't watched a baseball game since the Phillies won the world series.
Love you matt
Thanks a bunch!!!
Great video and gives me a clearer understanding of the launch angle term
I got this video recommended and I’m happy I got it recommended to me , really informative thanks!
People completely misunderstand Launch angle + Exit velocity metrics. The whole point is to get a hitting metric independent of fielding. You can statistically categorize rather accurately what LA+EV's lead to outs, singles, doubles and home runs (triples do not group nicely with any particular angles/velocities, they are mixed in with doubles). You can better evaluate what sort of hitter a guy is, especially with small sample sizes. It's a measurement tool that cuts out the random luck inherent in the game which is why Big League GM's are so enamored with it. It is not a training philosophy.
Ted Williams taught the EXACT same approach. Well done.
Yes he was definitely ahead of his time! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Most important part of this is "build a good swing, not a good swing for right now" who cares if you bat .750 in U11 if you can't get the ball out of the infield in high school. Great video.
Very interesting video. Love your definition of launch angle
Thanks!
Interesting question this brings: fast-pitch softball will still use the “chop” on occasion as an alternative to bunting, and I’ve read that this was also common in baseball around the turn of the 20th Century.
Why is this no longer done?
Pitches are much harder to hit generally, so it's harder to make good enough contact to place it where you want (which is the point of the chop hit), and fielding is also much better so it's easier to get thrown out.
I know its a little late, but its not launch angle, its exit velocity. If you think about the ball falling toward the strike zone, the best way to maximize the exit velocity is the match your barrel's swing trajectory to the ball's fall rate. Since balls in the lower part of the zone are easier to get the barrel behind with controlled lift, It requires a higher launch angle to "square up". I think we might see a shit toward using more of the top half of the zone to limit the reliance on hitter launch angles.
Thanks for the video. Thoughts on training aids like Backspin tee or launch angle tee?
If you simply look at the layout of the baseball field what area of the field contains more open space lending itself to the possibility of more hits: the vast green grass area defended by 3 players or the rectangular dirt area defended by 5 players?
What do you hear from many pitching coaches: “get us a ground ball”. Why would you want your hitter to do exactly what the pitcher is aiming for?
Good point! I haven't tried either enough to really have an opinion. Will try to use them more and let you know! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks. I would love to hear your feedback if you or your players do have a chance to use them. I just got a Backspin tee for Christmas and my 12 year old hit with it today.
Real talk man
Launch angle, velocity, front/backspin are all part of the equation. “Launch angle” is just the easiest to summarize. As long as line drives create a higher hit percentage than ground balls, swing for line drives.
For sure! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Let's say that a pitcher is 6'4" and he is standing on a 10" mound, throwing the ball to the catcher, who catches the pitch 18" off the ground. Ideally, the batter's swing needs to be on the same plane as the pitch, in order to hit it well. The same angle of the pitch as the bat. By virtue of the fact, it would be a slight upper swing. We were taught to swing level, old school.
This actually got me cut from my high school team. My coach said I have a “jeterian” swing. I’m a righty and hit the ball the other way and low liners. They wanted a higher launch angle and a more power hitter. Oh well!
Your coach was an idiot if he cut u for not swinging up!!! Hitting the ball the other way helps during a hit and run, moving the runner from second to third, and with a runner at 3rd the 3rd baseman plays even with the bag, so you hit the ball away from him. These dudes are killing kids. There are no bad hops in the air. There are no bad throws if you hit the ball in the air.
Whats the difference between a line drive and a blooper, if the overall result is a base hit. Why is a line drive preferred over a blooper?Love your vids btw
Jordan Reier so in the overall end result, it is ultimately more likely to contribute to the team when hitting line drives?
Because line drives result in base hits far more often than bloopers do. The stat line might look the same for that one play where a blooper dropped on for a hit, but over a large sample set far more line drives will result in base hits than soft bloopers.
In baseball there’s a factor of luck and random chance. So you want to create a situation with the highest chance of a positive outcome for you despite the fact it might not always work out how you want. The most extreme example might be if you hit a weak grounder with the bases loaded and the fielder makes an error resulting in 2 or 3 runs scoring vs a hard hit line drive that gets caught in the infield and results in a runner getting doubled up and an inning ending double play. The hitter simply got extremely lucky that the defense royally screwed up in the first example while in the second the hitter got extremely unlucky hitting it hard directly at someone while the runner was going in the pitch instead of waiting for the liner to make it through to the outfield. The vast majority of the time if you hit a hard liner with the bases loaded it will be a base hit and score multiple runs. Just like the vast majority of the time a weak ground ball with the bases loaded will simply be an out and possibly a double play with no runs scored.
So hard hit line drives in play regardless of outs or base hits is a great indicator of how productive a hitter will be. It removes luck and random chance from the equation. And over a large enough sample set things always even out. Guys that hit a lot of hard line drives over enough at bats will inevitably generate a high batting average regardless of some bad luck on hard hit balls right at the defense.
What if you are facing a submarine pitcher?! Should you swing slightly down?!
If you watch the trajectory of submarine pitches you will see a downward path as it enters the zone. So to answer your question, no.
Charles Hsieh Submarine pitches tend to have less positive vertical break due to the way they are released. This will cause them to descend quicker, which counters the initial upward angle.
Okay how about fast pitch softball players that face rise balls
@@johnvolpert8295Pinwheel or merry-go-round? Having the bat rotate like a pinwheel will give you a better chance of hitting the rise ball too.
Of course there is the age old debate 'do rise balls really rise?'
Rosanne Volpert www.pitchsoftball.com/Page11.html
In short, rise balls don’t really rise, they just happen to descend slower than fastballs. Fast pitch players also face mostly pitches that aren’t rise balls, so even then it is clearly more effective to swing up through the ball.
Additionally, here’s an article about swing plane and the differences in ground balls and fly balls.
www.fangraphs.com/tht/ground-balls-a-hitters-best-friend/
It details pretty well why all hitters, including contact hitters, should be swinging up through the ball.
If a guy is small, people tend to play such people more shallow. A ball to the warning track, that’s an out for a bigger guy, is extra bases for him. It will probably be a triple as a result also. “Line drive with carry!” Well put!
Hey Matt! Awesome you have Pete's jersey up there, awful disease.
2:52 Nice Orlando Arcia impression
lol Thanks for watching and commenting!
I thought that was Domingo Ayala
"Arod" lost me on a video he did a few years ago.
He said something like the term "launch angles" is bad - only to then have him advise to swing down on the baseball to get the baseball up in the air; just like in golf (so his launch angles is down).
The term "launch angle" is confusing because there is also the term called "launch" (meaning when the front foot lands and the bat is in the proper technique as you have explained) - when the batter still needs the sequence of connecting; bat lag; barrel turn; etc.
Maybe the term should be called "barrel release angle".
Hi I am a college baseball player and I don’t believe in this because putting the ball in the air leads to more outs for me. I’m a gap to gap singles hitter. Also the uppercut swing path leads to more strikeouts and I can’t play that game. A prince fielder type can strike out a lot and hit home runs but if me a short stocky guy that is about contact can’t strikeout. Without launch angle I hit .500 without launch angle in Southern California. Thanks for all your videos man.
Tony Sahatjian what is it that you do not agree with? What gaps do you hit the ball to?
Steve Israel I disagree with dropping your elbow and back shoulder to create a uppercut swing. This just leads to more strikeouts and pop ups. Only a select few can strikeout 200 times a year and hit enough home runs to offset that. As my kind of player if I strike out a lot I don’t play. And in big games getting on base and doing the little things win games more then a all or nothing approach. I have many former pro players telling me this launch angle is not right. In time teams will not be a able to take the mass strikeouts and will gain more of an advantage having some line Drive on base hitters that give good at bats and play a more well rounded game
Every single hit off the bat has a launch angle lol. What are you even saying. How do you hit the ball without dropping your elbow? Stop.
Branden Nong the front elbow should always go to the ball if back elbow drops at all u are done.
@@tonysahatjian5301 nobody in the history of baseball has ever hit without their back elbow dropping. Stop saying dumb stuff.
Josh Donaldson in a video on the same subject:
"Kids, if you're watching this... if your coach tells you to hit down on the ball, say NO. No one is going to pay you to hit balls on the ground, but if you hit balls in the air, someone is going to give you a lot of money for that."
He made it about money in his example, but the message was the same as this video: You don't want to swing downwards, but up through the zone. That's how you're going to be a successful hitter.
Which sucks. Home runs are up, strike outs are up, popularity is way down, the home run is almost more prevalent than the double, it's lost all its cool factor. You shouldn't have more than a handful of guys hitting 25 or more home runs.
@@staidenofanarchy A handful? Let's not get crazy. That hasn't been the case since the 60s-early 70s. There should be more like 5,000-5,400 total homers a season, which is about what it was during the late 90s and 00s.
Honestly Ted Williams Science of hitting said to have a slightly upward angel on the swing.
Take a look at my sons swing!!!! We watch a lot of your stuff
I prefer to term elevation or lift.
What should your launch angle be?
Depends a bit on the hitter. 15-20 degrees or so. Thanks for watching!
elevate to celebrate!
lol Thanks for watching and commenting!
The way I see it even if you are only hitting singles you want your bat going up through the zone because you will get that spin. Sometimes that spin is the difference between an out or a single into XBH.
For sure! Thanks for watching and commenting!
No problem. Your vids are the best baseball breakdowns Coach!
Another phenomenal video. Let me know when you start a cult. I will join.
What if you’re a short muscle hamster (5’8 205)
Leads to pop ups man. Just hit the ball hard somewhere.
I just saw this video from A-Rod where the entire video he criticizes launch angel and talks about being direct to the ball. He keeps talking about how he feels when swinging, but not what he actually does in the game. Enjoy.
th-cam.com/video/yPXS-EyOmLA/w-d-xo.html
That's all a lie. You can not put back spin on a ball by hitting up. Why do golf balls jump off the ground. You hit down on it to give back spin. Down at contact creates line drives that carry because of back spin
Ted Williams said a slightly upward swing and I garantee if there was statcast back then he'd have been at the bottom end of launch angle. He stayed in the zone which is why he carried a high batting avg with his power. He didn't swing like Kris Bryant or Gallo.
Every swing has a upward path at some point, no one is arguing that, but exaggerating it like Gallo or Bryant leads to more strikeouts, shit avg, and pissed off fans. Christian Yelich avg launch angle is 4.7. he pisses all over you clowns that say flat is no good.
Launch angle equals .218 avg 26 homeruns 62 RBIs and 200 strike outs and making TH-cam videos about hitting after you flame out in the minors.
We promote slightly up through the ball. Lots of people actually argue that. Many still say to swing down through the ball. That is what the video is about
@@AntonelliBaseball I'd like to see you do a video on Christian Yelich and explain how he murders the ball and has a 4.7 avg exit angle. It don't get any flatter than that and he smashes the ball for power and average. I have a problem with guys teaching Joey Gallo's swing to a 8 year old. That's a problem. 99% of kids can't pull that off they don't have the talent and it's one of the reasons baseball is no longer liked by lots of kids. What's wrong with a 8 year old learning to put the ball in play? My issue isn't with you it's with guys like Josh Donaldson promoting selfishness. They don't pay me for grounders set hitting back 100 years. I coach youth ball and I'm smart enough to know I can't win with selfish me first players. I teach my kids fundamentals and situational hitting. There's a time to have a major rip at the ball, bit there's also a time to put team first and move the runner over when you don't have a favorable count. Nobody puts out videos on situational hitting or say hey maybe with 2 strikes late in the game you should shorten up and find a hole. That's my issue. I appreciate the response and although I don't agree with some of your approaches, i do use some of your stuff to help. Enjoy the day
Jeremy Blascoe we definitely don’t teach being uphill as much as some MLB players. Most of the videos getting play are on how to create bat speed, how to drive the ball. Videos on how to move a runner over aren’t going to get many views. Doesn’t mean we don’t teach players how to do that at times, but we don’t really make many videos on it.
stop focusing on launch angle and swing down into the ball to get backspin
Chipper Jones doesn't, but he hit plenty homers