This is really no stride. Start wide. Coil your knee a bit without your foot moving at all. So simple absolutely nothing can go wrong. Albert Pujols has crushed 662 jacks with this one and Juan Soto uses it with two strikes. When a hitter’s having trouble with his timing I’ll have him hit from load in pre-game BP. Often he’ll stay with it in the game because he’s back in the groove.
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HOW DUMB IS KNEE RAISE HITTING?
A few years ago a plethora of young hitters were conned into believing a knee raise gave you extra pop. They saw guys like Justin Turner and Josh “The Bringer of Drizzle” Donaldson knee raising like a pitcher so they figured it added exit velocity.
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