Cubs hitting philosophy

[falcon]

After listening to the evaluations of a hitting coach from a rival organization, I can't help but agree that the Cubs have a serious problem with the hitting techniques they are teaching throughout their system. The Cubs buy into the old linear technique of hitting that has been discarded by the better hitting coaches and students of the game years ago. They are continuing to teach our players to swing down on the ball and then lift the bat after contact. You have a baseball that is traveling at a downward angle toward the plate and the batter is supposed to hit a round ball with a round bat by swinging at a downward angle ? That's crazy, and yet that is what they're teaching in our system. No wonder the big league club on down through the minor league teams our power numbers and extra base hits are just average to below average.http://cubs.scout.com/2/881770.html comments from Peoria coach Peavy. This particular rival coach said that he was looking forward to watching Josh Vitters hit, but was greatly disappointed to see that he was also swinging down most of the time. We need to get with the program and introduce "rotational hitting " into our system. I challenge anyone to google rotational hitting and you'll see that we are behind the times and this way of hitting makes a lot more sense.They're even teaching it to womens softball teams and it has been so successful that they were considering moving the fences back.The top hitters in MLB are are all rotational hitters, but the Cubs keep plodding along asking their players to drive the ball into the ground.

[burnt out cubbie fan]

someone NEEDS to fix the title of this thread.

[hotshot13422]

Maybe i'm weird, but i'm not going to read all that if you can't even take time to spell "Philosophy" correct. Just seems like a waste of time.

[burnt out cubbie fan]

Maybe i'm weird, but i'm not going to read all that if you can't even take time to spell "Philosophy" correct. Just seems like a waste of time.

You aren't alone. The fact that it's a giant block of text doesn't make it very enticing either.

[UK1679666180]

I've never had a problem with their hitting style, most of the hitters I've seen at Peoria use a combo of linear/rotational. They're supposed to to keep the barrel above the hands before contact/knob to front hip because it creates a more level swing at contact and then finish high.

 

You definitely don't see a bunch of Charlie Lau (linear) type of hitters in this organization. You also don't see pure rotational (Adam Dunn) type of hitters either with the extreme uppercut.

[falcon]

Now if you can get past the word "philosophy".......the fact that they are teaching linear hitting in the Cubs minor league system is a serious problem. Soriano,Lee and many of the Cubs MLB players are part of the 95% of MLB players that are rotational hitters. 100% of the HOF hitters that have over 500 home runs are rotational hitters.Many of our draft picks are rotational hitters but are soon forced to learn to swing down on the ball and drive the ball into the ground.

[UK1679666180]

They aren't teaching linear hitting, you'd see every hitter on their front foot. I'm sure they are teaching some aspects of it as far as the striding forward as almost every does, but they are teaching some aspects of rotational hitting as well which you can see the Cubs hitters clearing their front side and not locking up their front hip.