Cannonball - have you ever noticed how the people who can actually hit mostly agree (outside of a few absolutes), that every hitter is different and needs to find “their swing”. Then there are the folks who can’t hit themselves who are so absolutely sure there is one way to swing a bat and if they could’ve found that way, they would’ve been better players themselves.
I agree that the whole body is involved in the kinematic sequence, but that’s not the question is asked you.
Why are his mechanics “poor”?
He hit .295 for his career and didn’t strike out much for someone with his power numbers. I don’t care what anyone on here says…his mechanics are far from “poor”.
I am not an Albert Belle expert and maybe this was not how he normally swung. Good hitters in live games will and can contort themselves to do whatever it takes to put barrel on the ball. In this long swing, he collapses his upper body chasis into his chest, draping and armbarring his bottom arm and drags the barrel across the ball. It's not pretty. TBS, I never was fond of 1st ballot HOFer Griffey Jr. swing either.
Wow! Albert Belle was a loose mover, that made his swing longer than a tight mover but had excellent sequencing and timing. As far as Griffey is concerned, maybe the most efficient swing of all time. Without the injury years, he might have been the all time homerun king. Question, who’s swing do you like?
Not RH but I'll answer who's swing I modeled my dd's swing after. We used Albert Pujols' swing. As I have often posted, that was the goal but there is only one Albert.
