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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Mechanical Breakdowns

By Tangotiger, 10:08 AM

This is ARod:
http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2006/08/the_shifting_sw.php
This is King Felix:
http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2006/01/a_quantitative_1.php

I love this stuff. However, I remember Dewey Evans being called the man of a thousand batting stances. Pretty good hitter. Tiger Woods apparently completed changed his swing. So, while I love this stuff, I don’t know how much of it is meaningful.

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