Help with the rotational swing

You’d probably get a better answer by asking your good question in a different forum. I’d recommend going to batspeed.com and posing the question to Jack Mankin.

Here’s a short answer to your question from my perspective, “Not exactly”.

You are certainly right about hitting the ball deeper in the zone.

It is ok for your hands to extend further in order to create a larger arc to ball on outside pitches.

A big difference in the outside pitch is that your shoulders will open less.

Your hands may be slightly ahead of the barrel on outside pitches and should be behind the barrel on inside pitches using rotational mechanics.

Hope this helps.

go to www.mikeepsteinhitting.com, and go through his support forums (look on the left side). lots of questions, and lots of answers.

in theory, the swing is the same, and yes, you let the outside pitch get deep and hit it earlier in the swing. I find this a little hard to do in practice.

Mike's website is great, especially if you take the time to go through the forums. you can spend days on there reading posts and gaining valuable info.

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Originally posted by Michael'sDad:
In the rotational style swing, on an inside vs. middle vs. outside pitch, does the only thing that changes in the swing is the amount you let the ball get deep? The hands do not extend more from the body to cover the outside pitch but you recognize the pitch as being outside and the body just waits a fraction longer to fire allowing the ball to get deeper in the strike zone and closer to the body thus allowing you to drive it to the opposite field (if you keep the bat head behind the hands until moment of impact)? Right or wrong theory?

Think in terms of direction. Where should the contact point be? Swing in that direction.

Assuming you're not fooled and disconnecting to get to a surprise pitch or a surprise location, I think you'll find the swings very similar. Not identical but very close to it.

And please, stay away from Epstein.