re jose canseco s swing vs in article c jkik zf ucdavis edu ez dale ucdavis edu gary built like villanueva huckabay writes was going over some videos last night and you wrote an excellent report about it he s bulked up too much period he needs to lose about pounds not gain more bulk his bat speed has absolutely vanished conservatively i d say he s lost of his bat speed and that s a huge amount of speed that open stance is killing him note that he acts sort of like brian downing way open to start then closes up as ball is released downing could do this without significant head movement canseco can t also note that canseco doesn t always close his stance the same way sometimes his hips are open sometimes they re fully closed without a good starting point it s hard to make adjustments in your swing i understand from an unreliable source that canseco was considered expendable by the a s when he refused to accept any coaching about his batting stance the a s brain trust came to believe that his back problems were exacerbated if not caused by having a wide open stance closing it quickly and then swinging with a lot of torque that s a paraphrase of what i remember in any event canseco took the road that he and he alone would decide his stance and the a s began to believe that he would either reinjure himself or begin to lose his ability to hit for both average and power aside from salting away a large sum of a cash that i could never touch so that i d never have to work again i d restructure my entire swing apparently you sound like larussa second drop pounds cut out the weight work the a s also objected about this if canseco s open stance and resulting bad habits are a result of his back problems he ll be out of baseball in three years if not he could still hit hr again i m just repeating something i heard but possibly the cause and effect is the reverse of that the beastmaster mark singer mss netcom com
