He is showing him where to hit for power. He is telling him to hit the ball a little ahead so he can pull the ball. To swing a little early. Then he is telling him to use power from his legs. My credentials: I'm Dominican lol
No, he is telling him to take out the hands ahead without staying stiff, his body is staying back and his arms tense. The swing must come out like a punch. NEVER pull the ball otherwise the pitchers will see that and will strike out the batter easy with just a simple outside throw. I'm saying what I learned in DR with the best baseball coaches of the country. Dominican as well lol
it makes me happy to see pros doing this drill...I was taught this at a very young age, but instead of cages, we used the end poles of chain link fences to keep our swings compact, notice the batter puts the end of his bat right on the cage, and keeps the nub about an inch away from his body at :50 ... this is a great drill...and technically speaking , if you keep your hands in, you should be able to swing your bat at any length away from the cage
The sideways screen seems to force the hands inside,they call it the enforcer drill so you can hit the pitch square without casting around the ball,very hard but very effective
Kevin Long's drill he developed as a minor league hitting coach before taking that job with the Yankees. Keeps you inside the ball with a short quick stroke to pull the ball. According to Kevin it was Robinson Cano's favorite drill...
Ben Godinez he's saying he's use the hips e explosively every swing, he's saying hit the ball earlier don't let it get to deep in the zone, he's saying he looks like he's forcing the swing and looks jammed up with his normal swing, thats mostly all he's saying
The take home is hit the inside pitch earlier or less deep than the pitch down the middle or outside? The fence drill doesn't work for the pitch down the middle or on the outside half of the plate. Now, if your focus is to be a middle in hitter, then there is some value.
Main things I hear him say are -use your waist and hips and the hands will follow. -hit the ball out in front And he cursed like nobody's business lmao
This is Robinson Cano teaching Leonis Martin how to hit for power. Not a matter of weigh or height. Martin has power but could be even more powerful with some good advice
That's why u stretch the hips, the groin, the quads the legs the core, the dips the rib cage all of it. Everyone thinks those stretches at the batter's box are just a cool ritual or some quirk by the batter
JediFight he's saying hit the ball earlier/in front, he said it's a more natural and fluid swing that way he also was insisting on the hitter putting more emphasis on his hips , he was saying hands inside the path of the ball, and to swing uphill
Jedi....regardless of what Cano is saying in Spanish about other things, you have the most important part correct which is to keep your arms (hands) close to the body during the initial part of the swing and then push them out and away upon and after impact. It's the only consistent way to hit an inside pitch (as opposed to pre-extending your arms). It's all been said decades ago, by Ted Williams, and taught today by Steve Ferroli.
Yeah it’s just bat speed and torque, keeping your hands inside makes your bat speed up and drive through the zone faster, I’ve done it before and it works, definitely do it next time your in the cage
The hitter is pulling his hands in and across his body on contact, on every pitch, and rolling over every time. Cano is trying to get him to finish through the ball, which is why he places the two baseballs where his contact point and extension should be.
the hitter needs to load his hands better and get them a tad bit higher in my opinion. Also getting the ball out front come from firing those hands forward and keeping that shoulder tucked in and not flying out
In case you weren’t able to understand what he’s saying, he said you don’t need money, you don’t need fame, don’t need no credit card to ride this train.
Alright so I'll explain what the net is for. Hitting is all about the kinetic chain/link. To be really basic, your hips slowing down is what speeds up your shoulders and arms. Your shoulders and arms slowing down is what speeds up your hands and the bat. Think of why a whip cracks. Your arms speeds up and slows down. As your arm slows down energy is transferred into the handle of the whip, and along all points of the whip this chain of events happens until it culminates at the end of the whip where it can break the sound barrier. That's essentially what's going on here. The more rotation you have, the more power is generated through this chain. So the first step is obviously to get as much rotation out of you hips as possible, and that is why the net is there. The only way for him to not hit the net is for his hips to have completely opened up by the point of contact, which also guarantees him the most possible power in his swing. I had this problem, I had lazy hips that were maybe a little more than 45 degrees instead of 90 degrees like this guy's here at contact. I was a big guy but didn't get as much power as I should have, and I didn't learn why until it was too late. It's a pretty simple drill that anyone can do to teach themselves the muscle memory to properly open up their hips.
Let the negative comments fly, but in my opinion this is what's wrong with baseball!! This also shows you why defenses are now loading up based on tendencies! 40 hrs and 200 strikeouts. A 240 hitter making 15 million a year. Whatever I'll still watch. Go red sox!! ps. checkout bogaerts slap the ball to right. beautiful!!
