After a career low .270 batting average last season, New York Yankees Hitting Coach, Derek Long, has been working with Derek Jeter to reduce his stride.  One of the key issues:

…that stride grew longer and drifted toward the plate, which caused Jeter to lean over. It altered Jeter’s bat path, and his timing suffered.

Derek Jeter 2006

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Here’s another video interview (link to previous post) with New York Yankees’ hitting coach, Kevin Long.  This one is from Yankees Magazine during spring training of 2008 and includes some impressive praise from players (including Hideki Matsui, Jason Giambi, Robinson Cano and Jorge Posada) and especially manager, Joe Girardi.  There’s also footage of guys like Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and Johnny Damon.

This gives some good insight into the thought process of both players and coaches.  There’s also a little info in there about the Yankees’ pre-game batting practice routine (similar to the David Wright bp video).

New York Yankees’ shortstop, Derek Jeter, is well known for his ability to stay “inside” the ball.  This video gives his quick explanation on what he does with his swing to handle the inside pitch:

Derek Jeter: How to Hit an Inside Fastball in Baseball – The most popular videos are a click away

It has been near forever since my last post, but I’m jumping back in with this brief look at Derek Jeter.

Link on over to Baseball Analysts to check it out

Rich is graciously allowing me to be a regular guest contributor there, which will be a good way to keep me involved doing video analysis and the like.  It is really easy to get caught up in all the academics with classes and all, but I want to make sure I am practing applying the info. 

I’ve got to run right now to class, but I may add in some more thoughts here if the urge hits me…..

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