YESNetwork: Paciorek: Making a better A-Rod

WasWatching.com found this 10/8/2008 on www.baseballthinkfactory.org [flag]

Rodriguez is different. His stance begins balanced, low and stable. But as the pitcher releases the ball, Rodriguez starts an obtrusive attack with what I’m sure he thinks is a precise timing mechanism to generate a power surge. It isn’t and it doesn’t. What happens is that Rodriguez lifts his ... [link]

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Paciorek: A-Rod Can Be Better
Published 10/8/2008 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
John Paciorek of DugoutCentral.com offers a tip on “Making a better A-Rod” - over at YESNetwork.com. [Hat tip to BBTF.] A few snips from the feature: There is no better athlete in the game today than Alex Rodriguez. And he hits home runs with greater ease than anyone else. But why is it that he doesn’t get more intentional passes? Another interesting fact is that Rodriguez didn’t receive an intentional free pass after August 8 of this year. By comparison, [Manny] Ramirez had ...

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