Swing Analysis Miguel Cabrera

Swing Analysis

Miguel Cabrera

Miguel Cabrera Inside Swing

Today I am going to be analyizing Miguel Cabrera's swing. More importantly I will be looking at a couple key parts of effective hitters swings over the next couple of weeks. I am extremely interested in looking into what makes these hitters so effective and trying to take what they can do and pushing these concepts onto my own teams. 

After looking at Cabrera's swing a couple obvious things pop up right away. 1. He is an absolute stud 2. He is super calm with his swing. 3. He is a monster when it comes to attacking the baseball. In the Gif above you can see him just pulling in his hands to make room for inside fastballs. What is interesting about this is what he does not lose power when he does clear his hands for the baseball. Head is down on the ball, and he uses his hips to clear out for his hands. 

Here is another view of his swing. This time from the side of it. Notice how he is able to load up for the swing and as he loads the hands come straight back when the foot lands. This is important if you watch any hitter when he hands are loaded the foot is planted firm ready to attack. He is able to stay back in this gif and still attack the ball with authority.

In this last gif I wanted to focus on his hands. You can see how extreme his hand placement is when he is attacking the baseball. Miguel's hands are brought in so far forward that the path of his swing is very very short. You can see the elbow really give his hands room to do work with the baseball. Lastly notice the head placement even after he makes contact firm, steady and right on the baseball.