re: Prettiest swing in baseball--past or present

Current day Science & data tells us that their is little variance in attack angle for elite hitters(ones that hit for power & decent average), with the biggest variance being dependent on the incoming pitch angle & speed. Meaning, your hardest hit balls fall between something like +6 - +14 for line drives & +15 - +25 for most well hit fly balls.

Any major variance in this attack angle hot zone & batted balls become groundball & flyball outs.

Again, you are focusing too much on “how they get there”. And not so much how their swing angles are all near identical. Especially when you are talking similar batted balls (ie HR or line drives)

If Griffey’s uppercut was that much more pronounced he wouldn’t be Griffey. He’d be hitting fly balls & pop ups & wouldn’t have been the .300 hitter he was in his prime

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Current day Science & data tells us that their is little variance in attack angle for elite hitters(ones that hit for power & decent average), with the biggest variance being dependent on the incoming pitch angle & speed. Meaning, your hardest hit balls fall between something like +6 - +14 for line drives & +15 - +25 for most well hot fly balls.

Any major variance in this attack angle hot zone & batted balls become groundball & flyball outs.

Again, you are focusing too much on “how they get there”. And not sure much how their swing angles are all near identical. Especially when you are talking similar batted balls (ie HR or line drives)

If Griffey’s uppercut was that much more pronounced he wouldn’t be Griffey. He’d be hitting fly balls & pop ups & wouldn’t have been the .300 hitter he was in his prime

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I'm gonna concede this one before this gets too too nerdy.

But I'd still take Bonds swing all day over Griffey's.