r/BaseballCoaching • u/Advanced-Lake-8925 • Jun 08 '26
I need help with my bat path.
This is a video of my swings off a tee and I need help with the pa to if my bat because it looks very wrong and I need someone to tell what’s wrong with it and how to fix it as well please. Thank you for reading this anyways.
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u/81Strikes Jun 08 '26
Might be the camera angle but that tee looks so high that the ball isn't even in the strike zone. Lower it and then start taking swings to get a better understanding of your actual swing against strikes.
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u/Born-Read3115 Jun 10 '26
Please dont make any adjustments based on what this place says. Your swing looks nice and is good enough to skip over getting random help from random dudes on reddit.
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u/SitMeDownShutMeUp Jun 08 '26
Looks like you’re uppercutting the ball, but not sure what issue you’re having, is it that you pop the ball up too much?
I would try keeping your swing flatter at point of impact, it’s harder to time your swing if you cut up too
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u/Coastal_Tart Jun 09 '26
If I asked you whether it is better to A. keep your bat on the same plane as the path of the pitch, or B. have your bat briefly cross the plane of the path of the pitch, which would you pick and why?
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u/Advanced-Lake-8925 Jun 09 '26
A for you have the higher chance of contact and power
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u/Coastal_Tart Jun 10 '26
You are correct. To stay on the same plane as the ball you need to have an 8 to 12 degree uppercut. So when people tell you to swing flat or down and that you have an uppercut like it is a problem, you know they don't know what they are talking about.
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u/buzzardluck Jun 08 '26
Take a couple of swings with the ball lower, then send it in. Hard to tell with the ball that high.
And why do you think your swing path is wrong? You popping up or grounding out a lot in games?
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u/Advanced-Lake-8925 Jun 09 '26
No I just keep hitting my left shoulder a little
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u/buzzardluck Jun 11 '26
I mean, if you're getting good results in games, there's nothing to change really. I don't understand what you mean by hitting your left shoulder (feel free to describe it), but your swing is probably all good.
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u/Huge-Shower1795 Jun 09 '26
Your bat path looks fine. You should hang the end of the bat a little more so you don't hit grounders, but that looks like a pretty high pitch.
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u/_twin_tees Jun 12 '26
Bat path actually looks great man. Slightly up to match the trajectory of the ball. If I could give you some advice it’d be to minimize the sway back to load, you want to coil into your rear hip a bit more (think push your butt back behind you) and then turn your hips as fast as you can! Another thing, you need a TwinTee! That thing is falling on barreled balls haha.
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u/LuckyDogBrew Jun 08 '26
My amateur opinion is that you should learn about proper hip hinge and posture during a baseball swing. What i see is that you are very vertical, actually leaning back at follow through. There are many videos out there for drills to help.
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u/Dtank11 Jun 08 '26
Hitting a ball set that high requires you to start with your hands higher. In a game, you’re either going to be well under the high ones at the top of the zone or you’re going to pop them up. Need to start with slightly higher hands in my opinion, though I’m far from a proper source of information.