Griffey showing a damn good ability to create the kind of bat/body alignment from initiation to contact that facilitates a deep contact point:
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Note that at contact the hands have not gone past the lead hip joint. [And yet he has rotated the trunk--hips/shoulders-- pretty fully]. The barrel is at the lead knee. And very importantly the barrel and lead forearm create a single line at contact.
Question: If you placed a tee at the lead knee,how many hitters do you know who could create this kind of bat/body alignment at contact? I suspect---based on long experience ---that very few could.
Few could do it without "cheating." "Leaning back" so as to give the upper body/bat more time and distance, and creating a golf like counter-rotation of the shoulders to give the upper body more time/distance to unload are 2 typical cheating strategies.
And I should add that IF you do NOT create a single line of the forearm/barrel at contact [similar to a golfer's lead arm forearm/club at contact] you have failed to do what Griffey is showing here .
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