Baseball Pros Swing Analysis - Albert Pujols

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Baseball Pros (www.baseballpros.net), using Sports Motion software, breaks down Albert Pujols batting practice swings from Spring Training, 2005. A brief lesson on how one of the best hitters in the game uses his lower half to achieve extension and power through the ball.

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• albert pujols
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• hitting instruction

[kurtismaximus9]

HANDS don't lead the swing, Hips do. hips before hands.. all great hitters explode hips TED WILLIAMS- Hips lead the way. The commentator was spot on until the "leading with the hands comment"... Hands stay back and then at the very end explode through..that way you can stay back when you get fooled on a pitch, you haven't "committed" with your hands and have nothing back. Look at his swing, hips first.. look at all the greats.

[NationMex]

if you guys hate baseball so bad why the hell are you even watching this, go watch soccer or something

[rocketrein2]

He has a great swing helped allot.

[Jeterfan906]

Any time I start slumping I just watch Pujols. I don't even particularly like the guy but his swing is so fundamentally sound.

[20garrettg]

you're an idiot

[dadawg618]

@OPL21stJS oh yeah you play basketball not baseball.......so you haven't the slightest clue what you are talking about...honestly just leave and don't talk about baseball again because you're obviously clueless as to the skill required. if you think it's all upper body...get on your knees and swing a bat and see how hard you can hit a ball.....baseball is lower body and core along with upper body.........gosh learn the sport before ragging on it dumbass

[dadawg618]

@Carlsagan93 I'd say 80% is neck up 20% is physical :D

I'm a baseball player and I would know so whoever this is ragging on baseball players doesn't know anything...baseball requires more defense and brains than soccer...also soccer is the only sport where you can have a tie...so pathetic

[Carlsagan93]

@OPL21stJS Eliminate your old mechanics which is very hard 'cause they already have been kept in your muscle memory. In conclusion, you may die and maybe you never hit the ball correctly like a Major League ballplayer.

[Carlsagan93]

@OPL21stJS In soccer, you learn how to kick a ball in one lesson and you just have to practice. In baseball there are thousands of coaches who don't even know the proper mechanics, then you have to research by yourself, then practice the mechanics, then try them in a game, if it doesn't work, you gotta start all over again, research for other mechanics, practice and try them. And to practice and keep muscle memory, you gotta hit thousands of balls, then if the mechanics doesn't work you gotta...

[Carlsagan93]

@Carlsagan93 In baseball, if you have to know how to run the bases, it's hard to run the bases at maximum speed, 'cause you gotta run AROUND, not back or forward. I'm a ballplayer, by the way I've played soccer and baseball. In soccer I've scored dozens of goals, in baseball I haven't hit a homer yet. In baseball you gotta hit a small ball with a round bat. In soccer you have a BIGGER ball the you kick.