Baseball Hitting: Basic Hitting Mechanics

While the baseball swing has many complexities, these are fundamental basics that young hitters can learn and benefit from. To become a BetterBaseball player, go to TeachingBetterBaseball.com!

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[buyfu]

Hey guys, I'm 4 years old and can throw 80 mph lololololo. Some of these comments man.....

[bobbith246]

@Hayscountyboys youre wrong. torque in hitting is the distance from hands to front knee, the greater the distance, the greater the torque. its whip action, better elasticity makes a better swing

[BakerMassacre]

Since no one else is, I'll be the truthful one. I'm 18 and my fastball is about 80 mph with a tad bit of upward action. My curveball sweeps but isn't really a reliable pitch, and my change-up finds the dirt more than the glove.

[mettalictaco8858]

im 12 and i throw 67 mph

[OgaNoga1417]

this video is so boring <3 :(

[meyerchase]

try not to drive your hips forward so early. you lose power that way

[kingcoach13]

obviously you are very young.YES THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY:THE BEST WAY!! HELLO?!?the trick is to determine what is best:evaluate everything in the stance & swing in relation to whether it increases BATSPEED.you will come up with a fairly focused tight set of position/location parameters within a fairly small dimensional limitations.when you deviate from this,you decrease your batspeed.extreme body sizes/shapes are rare,the adjustment minor.only way:do things that maximize batspeed.open your mind

[ryoungblood80]

@kingcoach13 Never said the stance Pujols uses works for everyone, that's faulty reading. Nobody should ever be satisfied, but different body structures make different stances. What you are saying is there is only one correct way to do it, and that is faulty logic.

[kingcoach13]

@ryoungblood80 let coach read this.you get a bad result,you did something wrong.if mlb players fail to get a hit 3 times out of 4,that's alotta wrong things they're doing.the trick is to figure out what,&why,then adjust.this is where they fall on their face. they won't admit when they're wrong,(see adam dung) since they're not wrong,why should they change?pay's the same.every mlb player is his own worst enemy.he engages in self-defeating actions he refuses to admit are killing him

[kingcoach13]

@ryoungblood80 ask coach.he'll say he's still learning long after he quit.when you think you know it all,you're done.coaches/players are so out-of-touch with the natural laws of logic & physics that rule everything on this planet.they take a SUBjective approach,constructing their stance/swing in a vacuum,instead of thinking in terms of maximizing batspeed.& reacting to what the pitcher is trying to do to them.a 2nd unbiased view from another angle helps more than anything. try it

[kingcoach13]

@ryoungblood80 faulty logic to assume albert's style is goiing to work for any/everyone else.he's a great hitter because of his extraordinary hand-eye skills. he has holes in both his stance & swing.he gets jobbed just like everyone else. he fails 7 times out of 10.he has 700K.if you could ask him, he would say he's not sarisfied. you think his way cannot possibly be better.wrong.opposite styles work, but as good as they could.otherwise.you can't defy logic & mechanical physics

[ryoungblood80]

@kingcoach13 Look at Pujols stance dude. Are you blind? The best hitter in the game has an open while Barry Bonds had a closed stance. So two of the best hitters in the game for the past 10 years had their own and completely opposite styles and yet you are still persistent. Say what you want, I'll believe what I've seen and what my old batting coach taught me. He played for the Pirates. Professionals > youtube guy