SWITCH HITTING 101 | with Vanderbilt commit Rustan Rigdon
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- čas přidán 7. 11. 2022
- The Bat Bros are joined by 16 year-old Vandy commit Rustan Rigdon for a tutorial on switch-hitting!
Ruston is currently the 15th-ranked 2024 shortstop in the nation (Perfect Game).
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My boy was 10 when he started. By 12 he was hitting left side during mop up duty. Carried it into high school. Hes a SR now and will sign with Clemson tomorrow. My reason for having him switch hit at an early age was to set him apart from other catchers. He hit 4hr’s from the left side and 1 rocket ship right handed his JR year. State Champ or bust this year.
was he a bust?
@@ceerah-official no sir. He’s at Clemson
Congrats
I love that Will wears Uptempos to BP lol love seeing him rocking the kicks in videos
Awesome information...Thank you Will and the BBBB's. Looking forward to future videos like this. Rock on man 🤘😎
I've taught myself how to switch hit. I am a eighth batter, and have been trying to perfect my lefty swing for about 2 years. I am so close to getting it.
Just saw Ruston hit a walk off bomb on youth prospects. Keep up the good work!!
Love seeing the PRO 3.0! Great stuff boys!
Thanks for the distances and velos!!!
You should review the 2023 Louisville Slugger vapor. Also love your vids, keep up the great work.
will do!!
And the new Omaha
@@MattRaffi Your right
Love this! Will I definitely would suggest or would want to see you try out more of the Harper using those legs no leg kick for more consistent mid 90s exit velo and bombs!
Bro's lefty swing looks like prime Bellinger
Prime Belli was something else
“Prime”
@@Grilled_ChEasy do you not know what it means when someone is in their prime 💀
Who
@@chiefs.17 Cody bellinger, plays for the dodgers
I think you guys need to do a review the 2023 bbcor axe bats. Both normal and flared knobs. I’m a huge fan of axe bats and I’ve used one since I was playing tball. I just need to know which one is better for me to get. Love the vids!
Need to try to get a bay video with max Clark low key that would be ✅🐐
Facts, you just start switching if there is a good reason behind it, I start because I felt really weird facing righty vs righty so I just start swinging from the opposite side of the plate, around 11 or 12 years old still playing at 24y trying to get back at switching but shoulder injury make it little bit difficult lol
I love your love for the game Will ❤️⚾️
2:48 love the sound!
Love your reviews so much! I was wondering if you could review the true temper dynamic?
Hope you enjoyed your trip to the Peach State. That kid is going to be a monster, and you did ok for someone that seldom switches anymore.
Georgia is 👌
@@baseballbatbros u gotta tell me ur in Ga next time😢
Please do a video on swinging end-loaded bats vs. balanced bats from a technique perspective.
Is a great day when bat bros post
I'm a natural righty, my dad had me start switch hitting early. Hitting lefty for me brought me out of slumps, made me focus on mechanics and see the ball.
I wouldnt suggest doing so unless you can fly.
I can't wait to see how the new 2023 Warstic Bonesaber composite will perform. Because I'll be getting that first. Keep it up. Bat Bros. ✌🏻⚾
i been switch hitting since i was 3 and became a full time when I started playing baseball I have always been switch-hitting in game and always do better lefty
Will switching it up with the uptempos I like it
Mickey mantle is the King of Switch Hitters. I tried to do switch hitting back when i played. Chipper Jones is a great inspiration for switch hitting. I couldn't hit bombs from the left so i decided to learn left handed slap hitting like ichiro and fastpitch girls. It worked for a little but once guys started to know me, it started to work against me. Decided to stick to the right side and go for nukes and power shots down the line
Man, i miss playing. I make bats now so i get to use em, but the thrill of the game, can never replicate
Yall are near the house I grew up in! Hope you enjoy my home state (and home town). Starting young is the key to learning it.
💯
Great vid
uptempos going crazy on the feet....... fire
You should do the new bbcor meta. Love your vids keep up the grind
You should compare the goods to the old Voodoo Insane, love your vids✌🏻
unlisted video? love it bat bros
If you keep up the lefty swing, I can’t wait to see it in the future
Great video Will, thanks! I recently started doing additional tee work lefty to see if it makes sense to switch hit again (haven't since my early 20s). In the local 40+ summer leagues I face 90% RHP but I do quite well. In tournaments its more like 70% RHP.
Sounds like you mash just fine righty/righty!
@@baseballbatbros for sure but there are so many advantages to hitting lefty!
great vid... what is the status of current wood bat madness tourny?
Could you do a video where you swing a 5 or 10 pound sledgehammer for a bit before picking up a bat and taking some hacks? For research purposes, to see if it has an effect on exit velo or hand speed? I’ve always wondered if bat speed/batted ball speed could be measured after swinging a heavy bat.
We used to swing an 8 pound sledgehammer on deck and I swear it made us hit harder and get around on fast pitches much easier.
Can you review the Louisville Slugger Atlas USSSA? I always come to you guys for advice concerning bats. Thanks.
Can we talk abt bro’s shoe game in the vids😂
his lefty swing 😍
i started when i was 15. its never to late to start
Been watching since y'all started the channel. What baseballs are y'all using? Seems like Will has been lifting with Sim a little bit. 😎
I have those same sneakers Will 🙌
Me: I think this video would be nice to help learning how to switch as I've been thinking about practicing it.
First tip: *start young at 8-11*
Me being almost 18 with not much time left for baseball: *pain*
Hey Will, can you please try the combat b2 ultra bbcor because they have a great deal at justbats and I want to see if it's good, thank you.
I'm a natural left-handed hitter even though I throw right-handed and switch hit until about 13 years old. I hit right-handed a handful of times against really nasty lefties with low arm slots in HS, never once in college but mess around with it to this day if I go to the cages. I handled LHP OK unless they were throwing sliders from behind me, so in hindsight it probably wasn't worth the maintenance for the occasional right-handed at-bat when it really mattered anyway.
I'm a Cardinals fan and I always wonder when I watch Edman and Carlson who have way more pop from the right side if it's really worth the platoon advantage for them to hit lefty against RHP especially when a righty vs righty matchup isn't typically as brutal as lefty-lefty.
Nice switchy
Could you guys review the old usssa -5 prime bats?
I started as lefty so a bit easier for in game switch hitting but I was late starting at 14 but I’m pretty good at it now
I’m 14 and hit super well right handed but I really want to hit switch my swing isn’t bad lefty its hitting the ball that the hard part😂
Batbros can y’all take two of the same composite bats and roll one and compare the 2. I been wondering the difference.
I remember lefty will. That kid could mash. Top of the green building in right field
I’m 13 starting to try to switch hit this offseason
Can you please review the new axe strato and avenge pro hybrid?
I’m 14, I’ve been switch hitting a lot since about 10 years old but have never been fully commited to it. Any advice on how to commit into using it in games and just overall being comfortable with it?
do it more and dont get discouraged if the results dont come right away
That 13 year old is really good, nice swing from both sides. He hits bombs for his age, I’d like to see him featured in the future once he gets a little older and see him hitting 500 footers.
He’s not 13
when are y’all doing the showdown with the atlas and the voodoo and cat x
Rustin goes to my school and plays with my high school
Nice vid
It’s crazy that you don’t have the Atlas at a 10 on the power scale with that 107mph exit velo
missile 3 review coming soon?
i hit righty softball and play lefty as a hockey player....go figure!!!
What bat is it?
Lefty will is nice 👹
Yo a new training facility opened up in NH that I work at. We’d love to have you guys stop in for some BP, or if you’re ever in the area hit us up. It’s at the Walter Bats facility.
Hey bro awesome video,I’m wondering if you could get your hands on an Adidas EQT X1 bbcore,I swung it in 13U and loved it!
Oh and by the way 2016 model
Are custom bats like the Mac N cheese bat legal in games?
Love the vid. But I have a question for anybody who has info on it, I have never swung a end loaded bat in the 3 years that I’ve been playing. But I am 6’4 240 pounds, so I was wondering if I should make the switch to end loaded to get more power or to stick to balanced? Anything helps
What are you swinging rn and what level of baseball are you playing?
@@DB-tu1gs I’m on my high school varsity team and I am swing an old bbcor cf7
@@ekaj-_-2158 If you want a 2-piece I would recommend either The Goods(medium heavy), the Victus Nox(medium heavy), or the Select Power(heavy). Probably a 33''. If you want a 1-piece I would recommend the Stinger Nuke (heavy), The Goods One Piece(medium heavy), or the new Louisville Atlas(balanced). All great bats but if you want to use a 34'' I'd probably go with a voodoo one.
@@DB-tu1gs thanks you🙌
I was watching one of your Old videos and you were hitting and I set up my hitting that and a T and I tried hitting off of it and I hit one and then a year later I’m 10 and I can hit 60 miles an hour Lefty and I’m normally a righty
You guys should play one big wiffle ball game and try to hit hit wiffleball nukes
That would be sick
Yessir 🔥
Never seen him strike out lmao 😂
My son is almost 8, natural righty but has only swung lefty since he first picked up a bat to copy his brother. Hes an average sized kid for his age - 4'3 and 60 pounds and swings a 28/18 normally. Just started working on right handed off the tee with a 26/13 teeball bat. On "off" days he normally hits 30-40 off the tee lefty with a heavy bat and 20-30 side toss. Now we added in 30-40 off the tee with the light bat righty and 5-10 side toss. He was the one who wanted to start doing it (I was fine with him never switch hitting), so we will see where it goes. His "reason" to want to start? His former teammate started hitting lefty in workouts with the goal to switch hit. My son got irritated that he was copying him (he wasn't) since he was the only natural righty to hit lefty on his old team. So I don't know if its a 7 year old being spiteful or whatever, but his goal is now to be a "better righty and lefty hitter" than his old teammate is by the time his 9. I'm not one to stifle his competitive nature
i live 30 minutes away from that man!
Hey I go to that school and say yall there
How are you going to know if you struggle on a righty to righty slider at 8 years old?
😂 fair point!!
To clarify: if you’re interested in switch hitting, start practicing it while you’re young, and decide later on in your career if it’s something you want/need to do full-time.
My bbcor atlas broke after 4 days. I loved the bat but the end cap broke.
Oh no!! We’ll keep an ear out for if that happens more
Use Burce Bolt's Wood Bats
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Has Bat Bros thought about making a video on “Does Grip Matter”.
Gloves vs no gloves vs gloves with Pinter vs no gloves with dirt vs anything else MLB players do for grip.
IM REALLY INTERESTED TO SEE VELO TESTING!!!!!
I learning to swithch hit but righty and i hit dingers
Switch hitter here, mainly hit righty but i love being able to slap a base hit lefty every now and then
Orange -5 xl1 vs Green Zen??? Next Vid???
🔥
Honestly was expecting more for a vandy commit
How you gonna question Tim Corbin lol
@@baseballbatbros I’m not questioning obv there’s more to a player than exit velo but idk I was expecting 105s
he's 16..
Ik he’s a vandy comit and all and I’m not but he’s hitting off of his front foot. But hey if it works for him then whatever
Let’s gooo
Im actually a switch hitter myself, Right-handed batting is my main power but it's nice to hit both hands.
I started when I was 6 and now I’m 7
That is my school
Is it too late if I’m 14
What if I start switch hitting at 26
When does the 2023 goods come out
The voodoo is the only bat they making 2023
Hi
Once I realized I am two completely different hitters, it got easier.
95 that’s it?
I miss switch hitting Will
Now hit against a left handed pitcher totally different look
Yo get Logan Charboneau on this
Think Ken Griffey Jr swing
Please get aj Ewing
“I can’t get big, It doesn’t work” somebody is having Bat issues.
😂😂😂
Get the new ZOA glitch
Second comment!!! Sup to all the baseball bat bros!!!! Especially sup to Will!!!