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Tommy Maestas

9 months

Anyone with #ALS or anyone that knows someone affected by #ALS , please read this. It’s a 2 minute read but VERY IMPORTANT. Click on the link in my bio for full details of the research that went into this . #EndALS

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

5 months

@DanClarkSports This has ZERO to do with pitch clocks or work load. It has everything to do with throwing mechanics. Pitchers threw 300 innings a season in the 70’s and games took shorter to complete than they do today.

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@tommym8

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@jonmorosi George knew how to do something a lot of today’s hitter don’t. George rotated 180 degrees on his frontside though contact. This meant he he stayed in the zone as long as humanly possible. This is because he held the bat in the transverse arch of his bottom hand. Most of

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

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@Buster_ESPN He changed how he holds the bat and that completely changed his swing. It’s hard to imagine Gunnar swung like that his whole high school career. He was probably in a funk and didn’t realize how his grip was affecting his swing.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

Oakland Athletics OF Lawrence Butler was hitting .179 with 2 HR’s entering July. So far this month, he’s hitting .385 with 7 HR’s. Lawrence spent the first 3 months of the year holding the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of both his hands. He started holding the bat in the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

27 days

Jackson Holliday made a couple of simple adjustments to how he holds the bat and it’s completely changed how his body produces motion. Jackson is now able to load in the transverse plane. This is as big of a mechanical advantage a hitter can give himself. When a hitter loads

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Twins IF/OF Royce Lewis is hitting just .133 in his last 7 games. Royce has disrupted his normal gait pattern as he sets the bat in his stance. Royce used to set his hands above his shoulders as his right hand secured the bat. He now secures the bat below his chest and then

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

25 days

Bryce Harper is in the midst of a 1-31 slump and looks completely lost at the plate. Bryce is a career .280 hitter with 330 HR’s but you’d never know it by watching his current at bats. Bryce’s mechanics are a mess because of one seemingly mindless move he does in his set up.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Dodgers IF Cavan Biggio is hitting .208 with 2 HR’s so far this season. Cavan holds the bat in 1/2 of the medial longitudinal arch of both hands. This means both his backside and frontside are only rotating 45 degrees each. Cavan’s dad Craig was a career .281 hitter with 290

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

16 days

Jackson Holliday holds the bat in the transverse arch of his hands Jazz Chisholm Jr. holds the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of his hands. This means that Jackson uses the same arthrokinematics we all use when we walks forwards & Jazz uses the arthrokinematics we all use

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

22 days

Elly De La Cruz was 4-5 with 2 HR’s and 2 doubles last night. Elly’s last HR came on July 24th when he was holding the bat in the medial longitudinal archs of his hands. He recently began holding the bat in the transverse arch of his hands. This completely changed the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

@MLBNow @CleGuardians Why is batting avg not considered a valuable stat like it used to be? You only get 27 outs per game. If you are good at not making outs, that should be at the top of the metric food chain.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

4 months

@CodifyBaseball I bet you he gets from 0-54 faster than anybody in the league. I also bet he’s close to league average by the time his swing has finished accelerating, which for him happens after contact. That’s why he’s a line drive machine.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

@PitchingNinja He tips his slider. Here are the clues from the backside. The clues are different from the front side but they are there in his set up if you know where to look. I wonder if the Pirates know.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

@MLBNetwork @Mets @markdero7 @CliffFloyd30 He started holding the bat in the transverse arch of his hands. He used to hold the bat in the medial longitudinal arch. This completely changed the mechanics of his swing. He is now able to let the ball travel before swinging because his barrel can pivot about his knob without

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

26 days

Coby Mayo and Bobby Witt Jr both hold the bat in the transverse archs of their hands and they both set up perfectly square in the box. Bobby loads in the transverse plane, Colby loads in the frontal plane. Hitters that load in the transverse plane are able to start the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

25 days

Shohei Ohtani hit his 33rd HR of the year last night Corey Seager hit his 21st HR of the year last night. Both hitters are 6 ft 4 inches tall. Corey weighs 215 and Shohei weighs 210. Shoehei looks much bigger in his video because he holds the bat in the transverse arch of his

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Astros HOF Jeff Bagwell held the bat in the transverse arch of his hands. This allowed his upper body to rotate 180 degrees on each side of his body. Although he had a very unique stance in the box, his posture at contact was perfect. This is why he hit .297 with 449 HR’s

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@jonmorosi @MLBNetwork @MLB The Jays 3 best hitters all have broken swing mechanics and it shows up in their stats…especially power numbers. Vladdy Springer and Bichette all have barrel paths whose midpoint are 60 feet foul. Their training has completely changed how their body works. Their right deltoid is

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

8 months

@PitchingNinja Tony Gwynn was one of the few hitters that hit on the transverse arch of his feet. When humans move on their transverse arch, they use cranial nerves 3,4, and 6 which are motor nerves that allows the eyeball to track objects while the body is in motion. Most hitters today are on

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

Shohei Ohtani is 6 ft 4 inches tall Elly De La Cruz is 6 ft 5 inches tall Shohei holds the bat in his transverse archs Elly holds the bat in his medial longitudinal archs Shohei accelerates through contact, Elly accelerates before contact.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Yankees SS Anthony Volpe is hitting .204 with 0 HR’s over his last 30 games. Anthony holds the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of both his hands. This means his shoulder girlde rotates backside and frontside 90 degrees each. All hip girdles rotate 45 degrees. When Anthony

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

Bobby Witt Jr. is hitting .630 with 2 HR’s since the All Star Game. Bobby held the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of his top hand and the lateral longitudinal arch of his bottom hand the first half of the season. He has recently began holding the bat in the transverse arch

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@MLBNetwork @markdero7 @Twins Royce holds the bat in the transverse arch of his hands so he lands on the transverse arch of his feet. This allows him to rotate 180 degrees on both his backside and frontside. That is what allows him to explode through contact like this.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Blue Jays SS Bo Bichette played 135 games and hit .306 with 53 extra base hits in 2023. He’s played in 65 games this year and is currently hitting .240 with 18 extra base hits. Bo rotated 135 degrees on his backside and 90 degrees on his front side in 2023 He now rotates 45

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

23 days

Shohei Ohtani is 3 for his last 25 with 9 strikeouts. Shohei typically loads in the transverse plane but lately he’s been loading in the frontal plane. In order to load in the transverse plane….. A hitter must be square when he enters the box in the sagittal plane. He

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Blue Jays SP Kevin Gausman pitched with 135 degree hinge arc angles in his legs and arms last year. He finished the season with a 3.16 ERA. He now pitches with 90 degree hinge arc angles. His ERA is 4.89. This is the same mechanical flaw that Alek Manoah recently overcame.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

New Mariners OF Randy Arozarena is hitting .333 with 3 HR’s since the All Star break. He hit .202 with 12 HRs prior to the break. Randy held the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of both his hands the 1st half of the season. He’s recently begun holding the bat in the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@Paul_CasellaMLB He was holding the bat in his lateral longitudinal arch of both hands early in the season. He somehow got back to his old ways of holding it in his medial longitudinal arch. When the bat is swung from the lateral longitudinal arch, the body creates more space and the bat

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

Newly acquired Yankees OF Jazz Chisholm is hitting .249 with 13 HR’s. He’s hitting .210 with 3 HR’s over his last 30 games. Jazz holds the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of his hands. When he’s going good, his shoulders and hips start square in his stance. When he’s

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@scottcoleman55 There are 3 ways in which a batter can transfer energy from his bat to the ball. Centrifugal force, Projectile Force, and Centripetal force. Centrifugal force is the weakest of the 3 so a ball hit with that force will lose energy at a faster rate than the others. Teoscar swings

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

28 days

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is hitting .473 with 8 HR’s over his last 15 games. Vladdy has been holding the bat in the transverse arch of his left hand recently. He spend the majority of the 1st half holding it in the medial longitudinal arch of his left hand. He’s held it in 1/2 of

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Indians OF David Fry hit .238 with 4 HR in 101 AB’s last season He’s hitting .357 with 7 HR in 98 AB’s so far this season In 2023 his 180 degree swing arc produced a swing that accelerated right up until contact His 2024 his 225 degree swing arc produces a swing that

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

Mariners 1B Ty France is hitting .167 with 1 HR over the last 30 days. Ty hit .291 with 51 extra base hits in his best offensive season with Seattle in 2021. Back then he held the bat in the transverse arch of both his hands. He is currently holding the bat in 1/2 of the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

9 months

@Cardinals HOF @STLWizard (Ozzie Smith) played defense on the transverse arch of his feet.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Texas Rangers OF Wyatt Langford once gripped the bat with the palmar aponeurosis muscle in his hand. This allowed his fingers to act as 1 unit which meant he was using every muscle available to him. He now grips the bat with the muscles highlighted in red. This means he no

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

4 months

@BlueJays P Alec Manoah is back to his old self. He’s got to be breathing a huge sigh of relief after tonight’s outing. He fixed his mechanoreceptor problem in his left hand and is filthy again. He’s back to moving with 135 degree angles and will make a huge impact on the Jays

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

24 days

Diamondbacks 2B Ketel Marte is hitting .302 with 26 HR’s. Ketel holds the bat in the transverse archs of his hands. This means he also stands on the transverse archs of his feet. He recently learned how to load in the transverse plane. He was loading in the frontal plane.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

21 days

Aaron Judge has gone from holding the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of his left hand to holding it with his transverse arch. The arthrokinematics in his lead shoulder and hip now take his frontside through the middle of the field. His old grip caused his lead shoulder and

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

17 days

Juan Soto has gone from holding the bat in the lateral longitudinal arch of his hands to holding the bat in the transverse arch of his hands. The subtle grip change now allows Juan to use the flexor carpi ulnaris and the extensor carpi ulnaris muscles in both of his forearms.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Mets P Edwin Diaz is going through the exact same thing Alek Manoah went through. Diaz once threw with 135 degree hinge arcs in his arms and legs and now he’s throwing with 90 degree hinge arcs. 135 degrees= Projectile throwing motion 90 degrees=Centrifugal throwing motion

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Cardinals prospect Jordan Walker is an elite athlete partly because he moves on the transverse arch of his feet. This also means he holds the bat in the transverse arch of his hands. He’s struggling to find his groove at the plate largely because he hasn’t found a

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

7 months

@PitchingNinja Feller abducted his wrist at release. Most pitchers today adduct theirs. Here’s a sceen shot of Feller at front foot strike vs Jordan Hicks at front foot strike. This is the difference maker in centripetal vs centrifugal motions.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Braves OF Marcell Ozuna has hit 54 HR’s since last May. He made a very slight adjustment to his grip and it’s completely transformed him into one of the best hitters in baseball. Prior to last May, Ozuna’s top hand gripped the bat with the medial longitudinal arch of his hand.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

@MLBONFOX Jose changed how he gripped the bat late last season and it completely derailed his swing. Crazy the Astros never picked up on it. Randy Arozarena is going through the same thing. Both of their problems have pretty simple solutions.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@MinSub4 He is one of the least efficient hitters at transferring energy from the bat to the ball. He uses a 135 degree swing arc which means the angular momentum he uses to power his swing is amongst the weakest in the league. Ohtani has a 315 degree swing arc for comparison sakes.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

George Brett hit .266 with 19 HR’s in his last season with Kansas City. George was 40 years old. He hit .335 with 30 HR’s in his age 33 season Nolan Arenado is currently hitting .254 with 6 HR’s in his age 33 season. George rotated 180 degrees on his frontside. Nolan rotates

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Dodgers OF Shohei Ohtani is the best hitter in baseball because he knows how to transfer energy better than anyone else. Ohtani is the only player in the major leagues that grips the bat with the palmar aponeurosis muscles in his hands. This allows his fingers to act as “1

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Jose Ramirez increased his degree of shoulder rotation this year by changing how he grips the bat. Jose used to rotate 135 degrees on his backside shoulder but now he now rotates it 180 degrees. This new found space allows his foot to plant before the barrel whips through the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

The fascial slings in our body work completely differently in motion than when at rest. Twins OF Royce Lewis uses his musculoskeletal system as good as anybody in baseball. This is because Royce uses every single muscle in his body to power his motion. Royce’s connection to

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

5 months

@LeftistSimp @DanClarkSports Here’s Jim Palmer and Gaylord Perry stats. Neither were near the physical stature of Nolan.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@BeaneaterB Teoscar swings through bat with a 135 degree swing arc so he produces centrifugal force. Compared to Mookie Betts who swings with a 270 degree swing arc that produces projectile force. Mookie accelerates through contact and Teoscar accelerates before contact. This is why his ball

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

The Seattle Mariners are hitting a major league worst .218 as a team this year. The majority of their lineup holds the bat in the 1/2 medial longitudinal arch of their top hand and the medial longitudinal arch of their bottom hand. This means their shoulder girdle rotates

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

21 days

The left forearm pronates and the right arm supinates in every baseball swing. The left foot pronates and the right foot supinates during the swinging motion of every baseball swing. Diamondbacks 2B Ketel Marte knows how to load and swing in the transverse plane on both sides

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

13 days

Jackson Holliday is 3 for his last 27 (.111) Jackson has gone from loading in the transverse plane to loading in the frontal plane. This is an open kinetic chain motion so his humerus is “fixed”. This means his forearm rotates around his upper arm when he launches his swing.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

The Toronto Blue Jays led all of baseball with 264 HR’s in 2021. They are currently 26th in team HR’s with 84 this year. It’s not like they were sacrificing outs for HR’s in 2021 either. Their team batting avg was .265. Their current team batting avg is .235. Vladdy led the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@JonPgh Wyatt Langford has hit everywhere he’s ever been. High School, The SEC, Summer Ball, Minor Leagues, Spring Training. He didn’t wake up in April and all of a sudden forget how to hit. Wyatt changed how he holds the bat sometime between spring training and the regular season and

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Giants OF Heliot Ramos hit his 9th HR of the season last night. He’s currently hitting .328 and has 16 extra base hits in just 36 games. He played in 25 games for SF last year and hit just .179 with 1 HR. Heliot held the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of his right hand and

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

24 days

Royce Lewis was the 1st big leaguer to load in the transverse plane this season. He lost it in June but he has it back now. Royce hit this pitch over the right field wall for his 13th HR today. Lewis,Kwan,Ohtani, Witt,Holliday, and Marte consistently load in the transverse

Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Twins IF/OF Royce Lewis is hitting just .133 in his last 7 games. Royce has disrupted his normal gait pattern as he sets the bat in his stance. Royce used to set his hands above his shoulders as his right hand secured the bat. He now secures the bat below his chest and then

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@awfulannouncing He makes a good point. Focusing on exit velocity takes away from the results. It would be like highlighting the top speed of the horses in the Kentucky Derby instead of the first to the finish line.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

Dansby Swanson entered Wednesday July 10th hitting just .201 on the season. He closed out the last 5 games of the first half going 7-18 (.388). Dansby learned how to do what only a handful of big leaguers know how to do. He learned how to hold the bat in the transverse arch

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@GrapsNBuds @jonmorosi @MLBNetwork @MLB If his mechanics were fine, he wouldn’t look like this when he swings at a fastball over the outside corner. Furthermore, Vladdy has seen 257 4 seam fastballs in the hitting season so far this season. He has 0 extra base hits against that pitch. That’s a problem for a middle

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Mets P Edwin Diaz says he is 100% and is set to resume his closing duties Edwin pitched with 135 degree hinge angles in his arms and legs in his electric 2022 season. He’s pitched with 90 degree hinge angles all of 2024. He was still pitching with 90 degree angles in his rehab

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@DownToBlack Hitters have broken swing mechanics. They have literally shifted the focus from a directional approach to a hard hit approach. The thinking amongst this new era hitting community is harder must be better. They completely ignore the fact that baseball is played with defenders and

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

23 days

There are 4 ways a hitter can hold the bat in each hand. Each “grip” will play a major role in how the body produces motion. The “shape” of the swing will vary greatly from grip to grip. This is because each finger has 2 hinge joints and a ball and socket joint. Transverse

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

Diamondbacks OF Corbin Carroll is hitting .210 with 28 extra base hits. He hit .285 with 65 extra base hits last season Corbin used to hold the bat in the transverse arch of his top hand and the lateral longitudinal arch of his bottom hand. He’s now holding his bat in the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

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Shohei Ohtani is 10 for his last 63 (.159). Shohei used to consistently load in the transverse plane but now his load varies pitch to pitch. This is incredibly frustrating as a hitter if you don’t know what you are doing to cause this. All a hitter needs to do is study his

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@BBGreatMoments Tony rotated his backside upper half 135 degrees and his frontside upper half 180 degrees. If you rotate 90 degrees or less on your backside, you’ll never understand how it feels to swing the knob. His grip set his body up for this type of movement. He gripped the bat with the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Mets SS Francisco Lindor once hit with a 225 degree swing arc He now hits with a much smaller 135 degree swing arc. This means he no longer pivots the bat around his hands, instead his left hand pulls his barrel through a much smaller contact zone. His swing is now in and out

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

@87Hawk60613 @jonmorosi I’m not following what you’re saying. Perhaps you can describe it using the Hawk’s swing. He rotates 180 degrees on his front side as well.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

7 months

@OGdukeneurosurg Osgood-Schlatter Disease examination.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

20 days

Kyle Schwarber went 4-4 with 3 HR’s and a double last night. Kyle has now hit 8 HR’s since July 27th. Kyle has been holding the bat in the transverse arch of his hands for the past couple of weeks. He’d held it in the medial longitudinal arch for the majority of his career.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Dodgers P Bobby Miller was 11-4 with a 3.76 ERA last season. He is currently in AAA after starting the year 1-2 with a 8.07 ERA. Bobby has elite stuff largely because he holds the baseball in his transverse arch. Not many pitcher’s know how to do this. His stuff isn’t as good

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

6 months

@Ken_Rosenthal @enosarris There are 14 mechanorecptors in our fingers that turn on and off the 3 nerves of arms responsible for innvervating our skeletal muscular system. A “sweeper” or “power change up” turns off the muscles of the radial nerve which causes the muscles of the median nerve to do “extra

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

20 days

CJ Abrams holds the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of his hands This means CJ is using the osteokinematics we all use when we walk backwards. Bobby Witt holds the bat in the transverse arch of his. This means Bobby is using the same osteokinematics we all use when we walk

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

28 days

Bobby Witt went 2-3 today to raise his batting avg to .349. Bobby has gained 26 points on his average since the All Star Break. Bobby made a couple of minor adjustments to his set up in the box and it’s completely changed how his body produces motion. There are a few dozen big

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@michaelschwab13 Can somebody please tell Jose that if he would do this with his bat (left video) instead of this (right video) when he gets in the box he will get back to himself immediately. If he keeps doing what he does on the right, he will continue to struggle immensely.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

Bryce Harper hit his 23rd HR of the season last night. Bryce has been holding the bat in the transverse arch of his hands for the past week or so. This allows him to rotates his shoulder girdle 180 degrees front to back. (Front is home plate, back is behind him). Bryce

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

@bshallenberger @jonmorosi His rear shoulder trades places with his lead shoulder and vice versa. What degrees of rotation do you see?

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

@BaseballQuotes1 He’s warming up the muscles that power motion in the frontal plane and then pitching with the muscles that power motion in the transverse plane. Somebody fed him some bad information. Pitching is done in a closed kinetic chain and Quarterbacking is done in an open kinetic chain.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

15 days

Juan Soto hit his 3rd HR of the night on a 96 MPH fastball at top of the inner 1/3 of the zone…….Juan figured out how to load in the transverse plane. This means Juan’s trunk and head stay motionless throughout the entirety of his swing. The left side and right side of hips

Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

17 days

Juan Soto has gone from holding the bat in the lateral longitudinal arch of his hands to holding the bat in the transverse arch of his hands. The subtle grip change now allows Juan to use the flexor carpi ulnaris and the extensor carpi ulnaris muscles in both of his forearms.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Blue Jays OF George Springer is hitting .188 with 5 HR’s this season. He hit .283 with 39 HR’s in 2019 George’s body is currently broken and it appears nobody in Toronto understands it. George rotated 135 degrees on his backside when he was in Houston. He’s now rotating 45

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Barry Bonds had 75 extra base hits during his last season as a Pittsburgh Pirate. He had 107 extra base hits during his historical 2001 season. Barry held the bat in the lateral longitudinal arch of his top hand as a Pirate. This meant he had to ADuct his top hand at launch

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

@ihoodiezo @Buster_ESPN There are mechanoreceptors in our hands that determine the angles in which our body moves. These mechanoreceptors coincide with the arch of the hand a hitter holds the bat in. Our body is wired cross laterally so the opposite foot arch will always match the opposite hand arch.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

1 month

@_dadler That’s a great graphic to highlight his 360 degree swing arc….All made possible by the transversal tarsal joint in his feet.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

Mariners OF Julio Rodriguez has just 2 HR and 14 RBI’s this season. He hid 32 HR and drove in 103 last year. In 2023 he hit with a 225 degree swing arc. In 2024 he is hitting with a 135 degree swing arc. 2023 Swing Below 2024 swing in the comments

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

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Bobby Witt’s 24th HR came on a 96 MPH fastball at his eyes….More impressive than the HR is that he is now hitting .445 since the All Star break. This is when he started holding the bat in the transverse arch of his hands and loading in the transverse plane. When a hitter loads

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@Tosteveoscoops New Vladdy on top Old Vladdy on bottom

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

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Cardinals 3b Nolan Arenado used to accelerate through contact in 2023. This allowed him to transfer potential energy from his bat to the baseball. He now accelerates prior to contact so he’s know transferring kinetic energy from his bat to the ball. Nolan had 54 extra base

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

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@HeidiHmoretti Exercise produces mitochondria. Mitochondria disfunction happens when the Ruffini endings in the DIP joint of the fingers are inadvertently powered off while in locomotion. If your heels roll over when you walk, you have mitochondria disfunction in your ulnar nerve and there is

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@tommym8

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Juan Soto hit his 34th HR of the season and 5th since Saturday. Juan has been loading in the transverse plane for the past 2 days and is quickly realizing the benefits that come with it. One of the benefits is a phenomenon called RELATIVE hip motion. This occurs when the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

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Nationals 1B James Wood is hitting .454 (15-33) with 3 triples and a HR over his last 10 games. James recently switched from holding the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of his hands to holding the bat in the transverse arch of his hands. This means James is now using the

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Blue Jays OF George Springer hit .198 with 4 HR’s from 4/1 through 6/26 From 6/26-7/7 he’s hitting .412 with 4 HR’s. George went from holding the bat perpendicularly to his spine to holding the bat parallel to his spine. This now allows him to cover the lower middle third of

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

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A lot of people in the hitting world confuse turning in the frontal plane with rotating in the transverse plane. When a hitter turns in the frontal plane, the humerus “rides” with the trunk. When a hitter rotates in the transverse plane, the humerus “rides” with the hands.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

3 months

@jackrboyd02 @MinSub4 Because he had a 180 degree swing arc last year.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

Up until this year Mariners OF Julio Rodriguez would rotate 90 degrees on his frontside and 135 degrees on his backside. This meant his lever arm was 135 degrees and his moment arm was 90 degrees at contact. Now this year Julio rotates 90 degrees on his front side and 45

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

26 days

Dansby Swanson holds the bat in the transverse arch of his hands and loads in the transverse plane. Christian Moore holds the bat in the medial longitudinal arch of his hands and loads in the frontal plane. Both hitters have a similar swing arch and both hitters accelerate

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

5 months

#endALS Did you know Lou Gehrig learned to ride a horse for a movie a year before he was diagnosed with ALS Stephen Hawking learned to row the year before he was diagnosed with ALS. Both skills require prolonged pressure of the DIP joints of the pointer finger and thumb. THIS

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

8 months

@OGdukeneurosurg Looks like the ulna bone separated from the radial bone to me.

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Tommy Maestas

@tommym8

2 months

@JohnDenton555 Somebody ask Jordan to set the bat above his right shoulder like Matt Williams used to do and people in baseball will start to talk about him like they do Royce Lewis.

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