What's up I'm Dan Blewett in today's video let's talk about a couple common swing flaws
that you'll see in hitters in baseball and some of the ways you can exploit those as a pitcher
all right so let's talk about swing flaw number one and this is having a long swing and these
are relatively easy to spot especially at younger levels and what a long swing means is that instead
of being short to the ball which means the knob kind of comes the ball and then the barrel comes
through thereafter this means that there's some casting of the hands where the hands go out and
then they come around and so the path to the baseball instead of being short and direct is
sort of a long and circuitous going around and then coming back through the baseball so as a
pitcher this is pretty easy to spot if you see some daylight sort of between their arms and
their body as they're they start their swing you see their hands start to cast and reach out that's
a good sign that they're not going to be able to get the pitches in very well and they're going
to be sort of late to pitches and they're going to have to extend their arms to be successful so
you'll be able to beat those kind of hitters in all right the next swing flaw that pitchers can
exploit is when the hands drop so as the hitter starts to swing if you see the hands sort of
come down first where they go down the barrel is going to drop and you're going to be able
to beat them with hard stuff up and definitely hard stuff in as well lots of hitters drop their
hands where as they start their swing they go down and then pretty much they can't get back
on track and get above the ball they're going to pop lots of stuff up so again same thing when you
see a hitter swing initiate where do their hands go if you see them drop you're going to be able
to beat them in and beat them up all right the next swing flaw that pitchers can easily exploit
is when you see them stepping in the bucket and stepping in the bucket means they're stepping out
and so as a pitcher if you see this you're going to know that their hips are going to go with it
and they're going to have a really tough time reaching anything on the on the outer half part
of the plate so hitters who step in the bucket are going to be rollover City anything over here their
hips are going to be going their Barrel is going to go with it and they're not going to be hit in
The Hitting Zone very long so they're going to roll over all these sorts of outer half pitches
it's probably not going to be as pronounced as you're seeing me demonstrate but just even a
little bit of step in the bucket is going to have a really negative effect on what they can hit and
you're going to be able to beat them away very very easily and the only stuff they'll be able
to hit is typically pitches in where their hips and their bad are going because they're leaking
out so much the next big swing flaw you can easily exploit as a pitcher is when you see
them shift their weight early and basically watch how they put their foot down after they do their
stride if they're always shifting weight forward they're going to have a really tough time waiting
on off speed pitches so good hitters they're getting their foot down before their hips or
anything else turns and they're keeping their way back so they can explode and shift it later
bad hitters they start to shift their weight in the air and then anytime they're surprised by
all speed they're going to throw their hands they're not going to have any weight left in
their backside to beat you with so if you see hitters and this is something you can easily
watch from The Dugout if you see hitters start to leak and you see more weight and you'll see
that front shoulder system come with you or with them you're going to know if I just get a strike
on this guy early I'm gonna be able to beat them with change ups and curveballs and Sliders all
day so I hope in this video you've learned a few new common swing flaws of hitters that you can
exploit as a pitcher if you're watching from The Dugout you'll be able to see a lot of these even
from The Dugout and of course if you're paying attention as a pitcher you can see these from
the mound and your catcher will be able to see these as well so make sure you confer with him
so that you're on the same page about what your game plan is when you see obvious weaknesses of
a hitter all right so if you're new here check out my books my online courses in the description
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