Love to see someone finally talk hitting and not be worried about trying to create a lunch angle. Just let the swing happen and the motion of the swing works. Never were truer words said down through and tall.
I had the opportunity to get Bobby Tewksbary on camera this weekend in Texas. He has some interesting concepts on hitting the high pitch (and low pitch) that seem counter intuitive but once you hear him explain it, it makes a lot of sense!
gothard5, they should get Alex Cora or Barry Bonds. i know they cheated, but both have had some insane success with hitters. Cora got Altuve to win an MVP from hitting balls above the zone and at a .346 i believe batting average. he then managed the Red Sox who won the WS (once again, i know they cheated, but they were still insane), and got Betts and MVP in 2018. Bonds also led toto MVP hitters in those same years, with Stanton getting 59 homers and was almost a Triple Crown winner in 2017 from Bonds teaching him, and Yelich won MVP next year and even though he was in Milwaukee, said that Bonds taught him a lot about getting on the ball earlier, so inside pitches become homers and doubles to pull side, rather than single ground balls to the push side. i know its a lot, but im just talking my thoughts
@@baileysmith4744 the thing that makes me so mad about Bonds is that he would have been a hall of famer without cheating. He had maybe the best understanding of the strike zone of any hitter in recent history. That’s what makes the cheating even more unforgivable in my view. He didn’t need the help.
@@OuijTube, him cheating in my opinion is forgivable. like the Astros this year, he showed he was good without it and has the talent to be there, but of his time, there was a player on every team doing it. it was more difficult not to do steroids then it was to do them. Bonds was an elite base runner and fielder at one point, so he could not only help hitting wise, but be able to develop a fielder/speed guy into a power hitter, and still keep his fielding and speed. Cora was also good as he developed Altuve to be a great hitter for power, and still keep his contact and speed, and do the same for Betts by getting him to be the leader of a great Red Sox team. Cora and Bonds have shown they were great as players/coaches, and that even with a cheating past, can be trusted (maybe not so much for Cora but...) to develop an insane team
Down to the baseball results in ground balls and pop flies. You should talk about how the rear arm works under and through the baseball while the front shoulder works back.
i never understood how hitting the high pitch was hard. i find it easier to judge the ball or strike (its right there), and i can get lift on it to go over the infielders, rather than lining out or grounding out to them
It kinda is hard to know when to hit it when it at the type of the zone. I was playing the homerun derby in mlbtheshow a few days ago and it was kinda difficult at first but then it got easy
@@baileysmith4744 ask your coach, or ask yourself, how physics play a roll in the flight of an object?a baseball ⚾️ is pitched down into the zone (where pitchers want the ball so you will hit ground balls) and you swing or chop down how perfect do you have to hit that ball for it to take flight? In this video he is chopping down and the ball goes down. It’s called physics. The majority of the time you will hit the top half of the ball it’s going into the ground. If you catch the bottom half while chopping down it will be a foul back behind you. You have to catch that ball perfectly to get it lifted. The pitcher is literally trying to get you to hit the ball into the ground for an easy out. Why play into their hands. You want to think of it like hitting the ball right back at the level it came from. You’re not trying to lift the ball just meet it on an even plane. If you catch it dead center it’s a shot at the pitcher. If you catch it just below center then you have a hard line drive into the gap. A bit lower than that then we are getting into the air dependent upon your swing rotation. Optimal swing is a bit like a Nike check. Anywhere above center and it’s chopped into the ground. Don’t swing down.
the one thing the Yankees fail to do. everyone looks at launch angle as leaning back and lifting it, like the Yankees. Wrong! step, drive it, and get down into the ball
@@kyleford4573, launch angle isnt just 45 degrees and leaning back. launch angle is the angle the ball comes off the bat, where 0 is perfectly straight. launch angle matters, but isnt what the Yankees do. when you hit a line drive, you have a launch angle between 0 and 10 degrees, which is what you want to hit consistently, and get extra base hits. if you want to homer its better to go from 20-25 degrees, and if you are the Yankees its either nothing and you strikeout or you lift the ball 60 degrees and fly out or barely have it leave. Lemahieu is the best hitter on the Yankees, and whilst he does hit the ball with lift at times, he follows exactly what i said. step, drive it, and get you hands down to the ball
@@kyleford4573 he is correct. Any angle you hit is a launch angle. They are teaching this concept wrong. Think of it like a tube sending the ball straight to you. The batter should then hit the ball right back into that tube. I know the guy that started the launch angle talk. He teaches my son and doesn’t teach what some of these major league teams are doing.
I pray nobody’s teaching drive the back elbow! I haven’t seen any one do it. You probably don’t understand what there doing and just one of those guys that assumes and don’t like change
Love to see someone finally talk hitting and not be worried about trying to create a lunch angle. Just let the swing happen and the motion of the swing works. Never were truer words said down through and tall.
mmmm…lunch angle
nice drill. I love Bill and Cal. some of the best baseball teachers ever.
"If you're ten years old and your coach tells you to get on top of the ball, tell him no" - Josh Donaldson
''If you're ten years old and your coach tells you to take your hands to the ball, tell him no.'' -Dosh Jonaldson
Flash forward to 2023... Josh Donaldson, with his .152, got his hitting coach fired.
@@jockoadams3377Josh is also 38yrs old. Maybe age is the reason why he can’t move as fast???
You think you know more than a major league baseball MVP award winner?
I think Josh is right. I just think that his decline is due to his age not his mechanics.
Sean Casey was a GREAT hitter, not just anybody
I had the opportunity to get Bobby Tewksbary on camera this weekend in Texas. He has some interesting concepts on hitting the high pitch (and low pitch) that seem counter intuitive but once you hear him explain it, it makes a lot of sense!
Can Sean Casey be the hitting coach for the Reds? Him or Eric Davis would be great.
gothard5, they should get Alex Cora or Barry Bonds. i know they cheated, but both have had some insane success with hitters.
Cora got Altuve to win an MVP from hitting balls above the zone and at a .346 i believe batting average. he then managed the Red Sox who won the WS (once again, i know they cheated, but they were still insane), and got Betts and MVP in 2018.
Bonds also led toto MVP hitters in those same years, with Stanton getting 59 homers and was almost a Triple Crown winner in 2017 from Bonds teaching him, and Yelich won MVP next year and even though he was in Milwaukee, said that Bonds taught him a lot about getting on the ball earlier, so inside pitches become homers and doubles to pull side, rather than single ground balls to the push side.
i know its a lot, but im just talking my thoughts
Casey, Davis, Cora, Bonds... anybody but Zinter at this point
@@baileysmith4744 the thing that makes me so mad about Bonds is that he would have been a hall of famer without cheating. He had maybe the best understanding of the strike zone of any hitter in recent history. That’s what makes the cheating even more unforgivable in my view. He didn’t need the help.
@@OuijTube, him cheating in my opinion is forgivable. like the Astros this year, he showed he was good without it and has the talent to be there, but of his time, there was a player on every team doing it. it was more difficult not to do steroids then it was to do them. Bonds was an elite base runner and fielder at one point, so he could not only help hitting wise, but be able to develop a fielder/speed guy into a power hitter, and still keep his fielding and speed. Cora was also good as he developed Altuve to be a great hitter for power, and still keep his contact and speed, and do the same for Betts by getting him to be the leader of a great Red Sox team. Cora and Bonds have shown they were great as players/coaches, and that even with a cheating past, can be trusted (maybe not so much for Cora but...) to develop an insane team
Down to the baseball results in ground balls and pop flies. You should talk about how the rear arm works under and through the baseball while the front shoulder works back.
God this makes so much sense
Love these videos.
Good info guys I will use This tip in mlbtheshow 20 franchise & games vs the cpu
I love the high pitch. They feel like they come off the bat already over the infielders (so to speak).
THANK YOU I NEEDED THIS
I love it. I love it
great video you guys!
Anyone else can't lay off of, or swings and misses on the high fastballs?
Sean Casey could hit really well.
This all makes sense.
He hit almost every ball into the ground.
i never understood how hitting the high pitch was hard. i find it easier to judge the ball or strike (its right there), and i can get lift on it to go over the infielders, rather than lining out or grounding out to them
It kinda is hard to know when to hit it when it at the type of the zone. I was playing the homerun derby in mlbtheshow a few days ago and it was kinda difficult at first but then it got easy
High pitched are cake unless you’re taught to swing down on the ball or uppercut
@@TheRoadLessChosen, my coach is trying to teach me to swing down and hit groundballs to first base but i swing quite flat
@@baileysmith4744 ask your coach, or ask yourself, how physics play a roll in the flight of an object?a baseball ⚾️ is pitched down into the zone (where pitchers want the ball so you will hit ground balls) and you swing or chop down how perfect do you have to hit that ball for it to take flight? In this video he is chopping down and the ball goes down. It’s called physics. The majority of the time you will hit the top half of the ball it’s going into the ground. If you catch the bottom half while chopping down it will be a foul back behind you. You have to catch that ball perfectly to get it lifted. The pitcher is literally trying to get you to hit the ball into the ground for an easy out. Why play into their hands. You want to think of it like hitting the ball right back at the level it came from. You’re not trying to lift the ball just meet it on an even plane. If you catch it dead center it’s a shot at the pitcher. If you catch it just below center then you have a hard line drive into the gap. A bit lower than that then we are getting into the air dependent upon your swing rotation. Optimal swing is a bit like a Nike check. Anywhere above center and it’s chopped into the ground. Don’t swing down.
@@baileysmith4744 think of it like this on high pitches or any actually take your back shoulder through the ball
Billy Ripken could be Steve Wikos' long lost twin!
❤ right right
when was this aired?
Am I the only one that yelled DDT when he said TDT
Stay on top of the ball… 😂😂😂
Can you be gary hitting coach i mean Yankees hitting coach cus Marcus thames is a horrible coach???
What that hitter said wasn’t what he was doing. I think I understand how to adjust hands now, but not because he explained it.
It's always like that. A-Rod's popular video is a key example. Can do, can't teach
the one thing the Yankees fail to do. everyone looks at launch angle as leaning back and lifting it, like the Yankees. Wrong! step, drive it, and get down into the ball
every single team works on launch angle, they do it because of analytics.
Do u actually play baseball? Because coaches tell u launch angle matter.
@@kyleford4573, launch angle isnt just 45 degrees and leaning back. launch angle is the angle the ball comes off the bat, where 0 is perfectly straight. launch angle matters, but isnt what the Yankees do. when you hit a line drive, you have a launch angle between 0 and 10 degrees, which is what you want to hit consistently, and get extra base hits. if you want to homer its better to go from 20-25 degrees, and if you are the Yankees its either nothing and you strikeout or you lift the ball 60 degrees and fly out or barely have it leave. Lemahieu is the best hitter on the Yankees, and whilst he does hit the ball with lift at times, he follows exactly what i said. step, drive it, and get you hands down to the ball
@@kyleford4573 he is correct. Any angle you hit is a launch angle. They are teaching this concept wrong. Think of it like a tube sending the ball straight to you. The batter should then hit the ball right back into that tube. I know the guy that started the launch angle talk. He teaches my son and doesn’t teach what some of these major league teams are doing.
@@baileysmith4744 most people take there hands out of the situation and just have a good approach
@2:47 he sweared pls cancel him 😵💫
He didn't sweat... He said " if I can...." Not the f word😂
I pray nobody’s teaching drive the back elbow! I haven’t seen any one do it. You probably don’t understand what there doing and just one of those guys that assumes and don’t like change
Dude didn't even say how to hit a high pitch....bad teacher
Wrong! Video shows that your wrong.