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How is that not big

Exactly. The swing is over before the bat even crosses the strikezone. Check out teacherman hitting. He figured it out by watching Barry Bonds for twenty years. His drills teach exactly this.

Uh yeah it’s still a swing

But then where does griffeys go?

Daniel Spencer they use heavier bats but that’s good

@Dakoda Fisher thats a 17 mph difference which would be incredible at the same weight. goes to show a pro player's skill

Did you hear the explanations and then see the examples? Nobody said it would be homerun derby.

You replied this seven years ago? How you doing now

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Oofie I did

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ur totally right about how the left hand works

You are right. Donaldson talks nothing about the wrists. He actually says he "fires the back shoulder"

Daniel Roland , actually it’s correct m although he may not snap his wrists

I agree every word

They implied his body was creating the potential energy, I'm sure they didn't mean his hands or wrists are generating significant force. In fact they said they're the last lever in sequence. That's exactly what they are. The hands are the last part of the kinetic chain to unfold. It's not necessarily fundamental to rotational hitting to say the hands aren't a functional part of delivering the barrel and force in a direction. Donaldson sometimes mentions he thinks like his hands are the last thing going to the ball, he might have said he tries not to think of them but I've heard him phrase it that way before. And he also talks about how the initial move of the swing is a function of hands and arms, what he calls reversing your swing. Then separation and torque is created against the hips and shoulders, and your hands and elbows play a vital role in forming the proper levers do this with the bat on plane. A new thing a lot of great rotational coaches are talking about today is "torquing the barrel" and basically finding the spot between the hands where you feel you can manipulate the bat rotationally. I don't have any problem with the video's description. The full quote was: "This large (hip/shoulder) separation creates loads of potential energy, which converts into kinetic energy when his *shoulders snap forward* . As his *upper body rotates* , Donaldson maximizes his hand speed by firing his wrists just 29 milliseconds before contact. Because his wrists are the last lever in his kinetic chain, they rotate faster than any other link" They're actually emphasizing how much he's keeping his hands back until the last moment. They're also saying there's enormous potential energy when the hips rotate ahead of the shoulder, which is converted into enormous kinetic energy when his shoulders "snap" forward. This upper body rotation, they're saying, maximizing his hand speed, and they demonstrate how all that rotational energy sort of "climaxes" in the link between the hands which have the highest rotational velocity of any other lever. They were emphasizing how late his wrists rotate the bat to the ball prior to contact, that's actually what that measurement is but I don't know exactly how they measure it. It was a measurement of the hands rotational velocity as a lever, which basically has a linear relationship with bat speed. So in a very fundamental way, the hands deliver the bat. The only thing I wish they talked about more is how he creates such efficient, level plane, and how this maximizes his ability to make contact at a high rate. This is something all big leaguers do that young players (and pretty much the rest) don't, and this is specifically what Donaldson talks about and what he tries to work on, and what took him from an average minor leaguer to MVP.

controlhogger8 yeah, because that's completely normal for MLB players

Sounds heavy

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thats probably not his bat speed its his exit velo

also metal bats hit further than wood

Anthony Ricevuto the average exit velo for hr in the mlb is in the 100s lol, these guys are saying whatever

Anthony Ricevuto im a freshman and my average is in the 80's but the farthest I've ever hit was 320ft

Anthony Ricevuto bat speed isn't everything... how strong you are and also how heavy your bat is adds more power. I can swing a toothbrush a lot faster than my bat but it's not gonna get me homeruns.

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Does he still play? I just started following baseball

bruh, watch the slow motion after it

+Seth Holbrook he hits it after his swing which is hard to see and isn't a big deal at all and I have no clue why he mention it

Ohhh! Got it, my bad.

Nobody in the MLB is a "guess hitter", either you don't know anything about baseball, or you just hate him.

Guessing on the pitch is what he meant to say, baseball is a mind game of pitcher vs batter. Guessing on the pitcher's pitch before it is thrown gives the batter and idea on the speed, break, and the possibility of it being a strike or ball. That also depends on if the pitcher is hitting the locations in the strike zone on the batters beforehand, if the pitcher shows only selected few in his arsenal, and the synergy between both pitcher and catcher knowledge of the batter's strike zone swinging percentage. Josh Donaldson is great with his timing with adjusting to the off-speed pitch if he was looking for the fastball. Every batter is a "guess hitter" but their ability to adjust their swing to the pitch delivered is what makes them great MLB players and even future and current Hall of Famers.

mr white i thank you for doing my work for me me..f i played triple a till i was 16 and i was a great guess hitter to the point where i only had 5 strike outs my final year and 3 of thos were in tournament play...when i pitched iand got ahead in the count i would go up and in to set up the curve there for when i was at bat and a pitcher would give me an up and in i would GUESS the next pitch would be a curve ball and most of the time i would be right and be able to make solid contact with the white object coming towards me......the funny part is i was quoting an article in si about donaldson and how he spends countless hours watching film so he can guess along with his pitches so he can get that big leg kick going.....and these guys jump all over it so if the got a problem with me i guess they should also have a problem with jd himself......fuckin morons lol

Elie Waitzer couldn't have said it better myself