2022OFDad posted:Trust In Him, I guess the question is “would he have been the same hitter without the constant coaching?” If nobody changed his swing, was there a need to pay for those lessons or were you simply paying for BP? I guess it depends on perspective. I suspect the repetition was the valuable aspect of those “lessons” and not any technical instruction - because your son apparently has an innate ability to hit the baseball.
Like Cabbage said, and Trust In Him has illustrated, everything is different for every player.
IMO he would not be as successful of a hitter without the constant coaching through high school. The lessons are what gave him the swing that works for HIM. His swing is a little unorthodox but it works for him, I would never teach a kid to imitate it. His hitting coach's initial approach was to start off working with his '"normal" swing tendencies and try to make adjustments to produce the correct swing path, follow through, weight transfer, etc. Some parents may feel if they pay for 30 minutes of BP, the kid better be swinging those 30 mins with x# of balls. My son's lesson was probably 15 mins of maybe 30-40 balls max (excluding soft-toss warmups), rest of time learning strategy, reading off speed, situational hitting, and such. He also would not have the same results with a different instructor. We went through 3 others before finding his current one. Yes, son is a "freak", but a "good freak".