Will you let yourself see it?

Adjustability on display....



Stanton's arm usage PREVENTS him from making any quality adjustment to late ball movement. When you deliver AND CREATE energy with the arms you simply can not make a late adjustment. Getting the lead arm into the swing plane BEFORE you swing....so that a spinal axis can turn you....and DELIVER energy 'down the length of the lead arm' and then 'down the length' of the bat to the barrel....is a slow process. And not just slow....but virtually UNadjustable. Is that a word? That system forces you to make an early commitment to location because the swing is long to begin with. And then you have little to no ability to adjust because the arms have committed to a direction and that direction can not be changed without a severe degradation of the swing. The arms must be FREE. They must be free to move to a new location.

But, when you JUST DELIVER with the arms....while energy is CREATED elsewhere....the arms are FREE....to move an already speeding barrel to the ball that moves.

Both of these hitters have gone 'all in' by about the 2nd frame in the clip above. Stanton's horizontal swing plane....that is perpendicular to his spinal axis....can not make a quality adjustment to any moving pitch. If it was lower than he expected....his arms would have to chop downward to the ball....meaning he would have a 'one point in time' chance to make solid contact because his plane no longer matches the pitch. If it was further outside than expected his arms would 'let out'....which lengthens his swing....slows it down. If the ball was more inside....he would pull in....the dreaded 'hook in the handpath'...and rotate faster....and hook the ball foul. His spinal axis....rotating....and delivering energy 'down the length' of the lead arm and bat....is his nemesis. Yet....a multitude of people teach that as their standard.

Cabrera, on the other hand, has a FOREARM AXLE as his axis. The bat rotates about his rear forearm....about his hands. His swing plane is diagonal and NOT around his spine. In fact, he does not rotate around his spine. Instead he PIVOTS in his rear hip socket. His REAR LEG is his driver causing that REAR HIP PIVOT. He creates stretch BETWEEN his hand pivot point and his rear hip pivot point. The CREATION of his energy does not involve his arms. They are FREE. His creation is done by the forearms and the stretch between them and his rear hip. This leaves his ARMS free....to move an already speeding barrel to the moving ball. It creates the highest level of adjustability a hitter can have. And the numbers show the difference. You can literally SEE how Cabrera's diagonal swing plane, swung around his rear forearm, and driven by the REAR LEG, can take the barrel to spots LATE in the swing. His path...his PLANE....is not encumbered by the spine. It is not encumbered by the NEED to get and keep the lead arm in the plane of the shoulders. Getting and keeping the lead arm in the swing plane....and adjusting for ball movement with the spine....could only be created and distributed by someone who has never played.

Stanton is an athletic freak. Much more so than Cabrera.

Who would you rather have?