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Reply to "What % of high school baseball players can hit home runs?"

Buckeye 2015 posted:

My son's junior year his team had 4 kids hit HR's.  One had 4, one had 2 and 2 had 1 each probably had 3 others who could hit one, but none in games.  His senior year....son had 4, one other had 1.   There were 2 others who could hit them, but didn't get any during games.  Went and watched our HS team this past spring.  They didn't have one kid who had a chance at hitting one...and didn't have any as a team. 

Some kids have the size, bat speed, power, and swing type to hit home runs.  You still need the proper swing to get it done.  My son was taught to try to hit every ball a solid line drive.  A home run (for his swing) was a miss-hit.  He got a little under the ball, produced a backspin and the results were a home run.  He never tried hitting home runs (so he claims).  He used BBCOR, ended up near the top of home runs for the state in high school.

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