Re: Thread
Assani,
I am not de-valuing practice at all and I know exactly how much you get better through repetitions and refinement of your swing etc. I also know that you can take a million swings in a cage or in BP and step in the box and the game can overwhelm you until you get your timing down. It is a fact that when you get to spring training and most of the way through spring training, pitchers dominate hitters--b/c hitters can PRACTICE all they want but they have to see a 90+ fastball coming at them over and over to get used to it again...yes even big leaguers get dominated by low A ball players until they get their timing back.
Once you get to a certain level of play your swing mechanics are nearly muscle memory and BP etc. is to refine little tweaks here and there but mostly just to keep your mechanics/memory. This entire thread I have been talking about big league/NFL/NBA level not college. Sure in college and before you learn a TON during practice but get to the minor leagues, the learning is over--unless you are top 3 pick in the system, then they may hold your hand a little bit.
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