Scott Swing Analysis vs. Alex Rodriguez

www.wisconsinbaseballacademy.com What we're looking at is Scott getting his front foot down early, while keeping his hands back, a lot like Alex Rodriguez on the right. The key to successfull hitting is getting your foot down early in order to recognize the pitch early. Both pitches were offspeed and you can see how Scott keeps his hands back, drives his back hip through the ball, and hits a homerun to left center.

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[BucketofThrowup]

Interesting, i am a bit confused, are you trying to replicate his swing on purpose or do you naturally hit that way? If your just trying to swing like him I would take time to make minor changes so you may find a breakthrough.

[wibaseballacademy]

@BucketofThrowup this is actually one of my students who is now playing college baseball. This is his actual swing, the funny thing is, all good hitters do the same things at the major points in the swing.

[ecow280]

those swings are completely different first off. second arod gets away with movement forward first because hes strong enough you cant compare yourself to pros they are bigger faster and stronger and were no where close to them

[wibaseballacademy]

@ecow280 hitting is hitting, whether you are 6'4'' and 230 or 5'8'' 185...I can throw up a video of David Eckstein vs. Albert Pujols and then would love to listen to you tell me you can't swing like them because they are so big and strong.

[Soupy1616]

? These are two different swings on two different pitches. I understand that certain points on a swing should be consistent, but maybe a different video would provide better analysis. Scott is pulling the ball, evidenced by clearing his hips, generating bat speed, strong upper body finish, leaning back at the end of his swing. Rodriguez is going with the pitch or shooting it up the middle, evidenced by his 'handsy' swing, rolling his top hand over, weight is way forward, etc.

[wibaseballacademy]

@Soupy1616 Agreed, but we're not looking at how to drive a ball to right or left field, rather, how to keep the weight transfering forward while keeping the hands back on an offspeed pitch, very knowledgable response thanks for the post!

[KOcards11]

Also, Scott is not transferring his weight from the back side to the front. At point of contact he is leaning back and not utilizing his whole body.

[KOcards11]

A-Rods swing is actually on a downward plane until contact is met with the ball. When contact is made, he extends keeping the bat on the ball as long as possible for the most power. It looks like the other guy has a little but of an uppercut.

[mkeets]

well the point is every good hitter won't be carbon copies but they'll all have a certain amount of "common denominators" not all good hitters will wiggle their bat around like ken griffey or have a wide stance like pujols; but they'll all get their foot down early, keep their hands back, keep their hands inside the ball, etc. basically there are always certain points in every good hitters swing that will be pretty similar to each other.

[Austman14]

their swing are totally different alex hands are higher i dont get the point of this

[lil1pdiddy]

His follow through is terrible....makes him very slow coming out of the box because he gets out of alignment which causes him to take even more time to get back into alignment and into a running stance......sorry but you suck cause it took me 1:35 to figure out his whole swing is ruined by his follow through

[skywalker71903]

AROD = STEROIDS

[XxMaDsPaCexXV2]

not the same

[16dodgerblue]

Naturally, when I hit I come up and lean backwards as does your hitter Scott but my hitting coach wanted me to follow through with the back shoulder coming through the ball. It's like a punch, you would never get tall and lean back when your knuckles meet the person, you want to follow through it with all your body... Don't you think Scott would get more power if he stayed following through the ball at the POC rather than lift up and lean backwards?

[15chur]

terrible comparison mate, get a clue would ya

[15chur]

terrible comparison mate, get a clue would ya