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Hayden Travinski started 2024 the way he ended 2023 and that’s by swinging a huge bat for LSU. He hit his first homer in the season opener of the Tigers season. Mikie and Jared take a deep dive into that swing and what makes Travinski such a dangerous hitter.
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Just I like baseball I want I like good swings and we can talk it through okay we have a choice of trinsky Neil monster and Tommy who do you want to go with first like monster maybe just because let’s do trinsky first let’s do trinsky
First let’s go with it cuz this one I liked a lot I haven’t seen this yet off the Schoolboard coach can you just back that up to contact yeah let me get the uh slow-mo yeah we’re going to go first of all Elite no no keep going just go get
The contact first we we’ll back it up from the start but I want to be able to show this too I love being able to talk about stuff like this God it’s so good so that’s a little further than contact yeah I just did you get back on it toe
Touch oh my God so good can you go one more frame is that possible slow it down just a touch and for those of yall are looking at saying oh he’s not squishing the bug stop that bug ain’t no bug that’s called rot that the back foot off
The ground is awesome if you go look at any Elite hitter in the big leagues that is what happens they’re going through the baseball back foot comes off the ground this is unbelievably amazing can you go one more frame or now yeah oh you missed it one more that was two frames
Just one more frame it’s up to the computer sometimes no you got the finger on stop perfect okay perfect here we go so here’s here’s what I first love about this because I love when people try to tell you you got to go down and get the low ball right like this Ball’s
Right at probably the top of the kneecap there’s no going down to go and get that understand that that Barrel mhm balls that are low your Barrel is going to be basically vertical to the ground because if I told you to stay in there with both
Hands kind of straight down in front of you and both hands on the bat and then you tell me how low the actual Sweet Spot the barrel of the bat reaches it’s going to be probably to about mid chin so the people that think like hey these
Low balls I need to take the bat straight down to it and basically leave my backside and go get it you’re wrong this is a guy hitting a ball off the scoreboard on a low ball how does he do that it’s by understanding how to use your backside and understanding that the
Bat path is going to have to take and that there is way more Barrel to it than you actually think almost kind of think of it this way it’s not really the same thing but when I stand up there and I play golf right The Sweet Spot of the
Golf club is touching the ground right if I put my bat down and I’m holding bat like I would hold a golf club where’s The Sweet Spot of my bat it’s going to be mid Shin is right that’s about how much coverage you actually have and you people don’t understand that my swing
Doesn’t change because the ball’s low I just got to let it get a little deeper and I got to understand how to still take that same path inside of that same pitch no doubt go back to it give me one second okay what happened I’m getting y’all set up in the
Corner we give you all this time no time at all I forgot that I did this last time all right one second yes yes this is easier looks better okay merge well okay I need you go back I am okay and it stop at the right actually
Stop okay I was getting rid of the I I don’t need you to stop at contact stop right there here boom now I say go ahead go ahead so you talked and I want to get to your point about getting down to a low pitch right but we talk about
Separation you can go one more click actually oh backwards again when is tell me when no well it’s a little okay we we’ll go from there stop stop stop stop so two clicks before when he landed the first time he had toe touch we talked about
Last week we wanted to see a lot of almost call it like a scap load right where you wanted to see where he landed you didn’t want to see him moving his hands and or pushing his hands backwards or bringing his hands with him right you
Wanted to see his body going forward his hand staying still with kind of that rubber band effect right trinsky gets that on this now this is obviously a two clicks when he’s starting his swing but when you get to this point your first motion cannot be this way right like it
Can’t be around with your shoulder your first motion needs to be this way right like you’re trying to drag you’re trying to bring that elbow into the slot stop stop ly so and now that he’s putting into that point see here’s where this is where it becomes tricky at which a lot
Of people don’t like to he’s still loaded up in that hipo yeah this is why this is why the the the foundation is so important to me so a lot of people what Mike’s talking about is awesome and that’s where really I would love to see every single hitter get is you actually
Loading that and using that as much as you can and creating as much of a rubber band as you can here’s where it becomes not fair and where it becomes different for guys who are who hold a lot of mass and are hold a lot of length and what I
Mean by mass is you weigh a lot you as a person what I mean by length is you have very long Limbs and possibly even May weigh a lot as well stand next to Hayden trinsky that is a large large man to where what I’m saying is when you watch
Him now there’s more that he could be doing there’s more that he can be rubber band create wise like upper half but guess what because of the mass because of how unbelievably sound his lower half is and how he’s using it and how there’s no drift and how he is literally
Connected all the way until he pulls this trigger and stays connected through the swing is why he’s able to do what he’s what he does with not even using the upper half as much as he needs to because he doesn’t need it yeah because he’s that big he’s that strong and he’s
That connected and that grounded with his base already well he doesn’t need to use it because you said grounded with his base you’re going to get most of your pop from your lower half right which we all know and when he starts to swing keep going a little bit
More more stop so you see the gap between the bat and his back shoulder you see how how how small that Gap is is that is the definition of connection so now the bat is staying here now if the bat was out here he’s not near as
Strong like this Ball’s not going to go it’s probably going to be a roll over to the third baseman or the short stop it’s not going to be driven off the scoreboard he is staying so connected here to where and he’s he has room with his back shoulder or his back elbow
Where it can clear and he can get through if his back elbow gets stuck he’s got nothing to get through and that’s how you you have to compensate and you kind of roll this way but that now the fact that he’s connected and he’s kind of got that that lean in his
Back shoulder come his back elow comes through now he’s not only connected but he’s got space to work through the middle of the field right and then if you keep moving you get to contact right there it is a pitch down the Zone Jared already talked about it you do not go
Get the ball down with your hands no you go or your upper body or your upper body you don’t lose posture to go get the ball down the zone you go get the ball down the Zone with your legs and that’s just staying grounded yeah as long as
You don’t lose posture and you stay there the only thing that changes is what your contact Point not hey I got to go down and get it or I got to go do something different he stays down this pitch is a pitch down the Zone this is
Hard to elevate unless you do it the right way and he goes down and gets it and this is an absolutely pitcher perfect swing also when you were younger when I was younger they used to tell me if you want to pull the ball you got
To hit the ball out way out in front no if you want to hit the ball at the middle it’s got to be even with your front side if you hit the ball to the opposite field it’s got to be inside your front foot let it travel that’s
Almost four feet that you got to make a difference false in reality it’s about six Ines difference if you you want to pull the ball outside of your front foot you make contact outside your front foot if you want to hit the ball up the middle even
With your front foot if you want H the ball right center field just inside your front foot that’s six Ines that you have to make this pitch he’s making contact little bit outside of his front foot this ball goes off the left center field scoreboard here’s here’s what I
Got to you ly can you go just a little bit further and I’ll tell you when to stop o go a little bit further oh wait look at that extension that’s what I’m getting to okay go a little bit further so you can stop here so for me now he
Has not left his stance he is finishing the swing and I try to tell guys this all the time if you want to watch watch someone finish through a swing for me direction is super super super key but Direction starts with understanding how to get direction it doesn’t matter if
The pitch is on the black inside or the pitch is on the black away what you want to be able to do is keep your weight moving through the pitcher through the middle of the field as long as possible now what the hell does that mean okay
You see that back shoulder his right shoulder you want to be able to get that shoulder through so far that you feel like that shoulder is what’s taking you right to the pitcher now contact Point becomes it doesn’t really matter I’ll catch you somewhere along this train but
If I can always be moving through the pitcher if I can always find a way to get inside and get my back shoulder as far forward as possible that means you’re staying in the zone very long and you’re giving your bat and your Barrel the longest chance to make solid contact
Before you leave the zone and come out of it I mean this is so that’s how the extensions there if you ask me so if you stop it now go a little bit longer stop it here’s also what I like you talking about extension and Direction and getting through the baseball right that
Is everything you hear that from every hitting coach this is the definition of getting through when he makes contact when you saw he made contact and his front front side was stiff then he continues that direction he stays through the baseball you’re not your swing’s not over with when you make
Contact it’s over with when you get through contact right because if you go contact here and you go out the zone you get a nice little to little top Top Spin single maybe something in the six hole maybe a d maybe a two Hopper to short
And you’re going your ass back to the Dugout right you going hit hard good exit vo yeah probably great EXO yeah right this one he gets to it he sits through it he gets through it directions continuing to go to center field and that’s why you see when he finishes the
Swing the the front knee ends up starting to bend end cuz he is getting as far as far extended as he can continue and he’s gone and then he gets that finish and it’s off the scoreboard like it’s that is a favorite swing of the weekend yeah I got tell you right
Now if that’s what you’re going to get from Hayden dravinski you may see 25 plus this year I mean that’s special that’s I’m just going let you know that that’s not that ain’t oh he just got pop no that’s a that’s a special swinger early in the year I mean early in his
Career uh and you get this honestly let me be honest with you you get that the ability to walk away from a swing like that when you walk through it when you fall that lets you know how balanced he is that’s how balanced in his swing he
Is that he can walk away from a swing like that yep his ability to have a pimp job comes from his ability to be so balanced and so grounded that it’s not even funny earlier in his like early in his college career he struggled with some
Vo he did not struggle with vo last year no and I don’t expect him to struggle with vo his swing right now looks amazing and this is a picture perfect swing best my favorite swing of the weekend that boy oo great Pimp Drop too yeah that thing literally the batd drop finished the
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Love to hear yall talk hitting! IYKYK