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Here’s what my swing looks like these days:

The image below shows my greatest weakness; it occurs right after front leg block:

As you can see in the video, the frame after I pause for front leg block, my body still carries forward. This is known as “leaking” and is caused by a weak front leg block. I have fixed this in the past, but I get lazy and tend to forget that I need to land with a strong, yet flexed front leg.

Due to this flaw, my hands move in a linear fashion for too long, hence the term “bat drag.” You want the hands to cut across the chest and in a circular motion around the body to produce a short swing to contact. “Short to it and long through it.”

However, because of my aforementioned hand-eye coordination, I am able to get away with it against inferior (sub-85 mph) pitching and get into this position, which is a thing of beauty:

Now this is good form! Proof?

You’ll notice that Pujols front leg is completely locked out in a strong position; mine isn’t. Again, this is due to poor front leg block mechanics, which is something that is somewhat easily fixed. I am convinced that another month of hitting in a cage with video will fix this problem and give me an excellent power swing. After that, it’s all up to me in the batter’s box to identify and hit pitches, something I’ve fortunately been pretty good at my whole life.