Edgar Martinez was one of the best hitters of his generation. The Mariners hitting coach talked with MLB Central about hitting to the opposite field and his back leg at the plate.
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I remember watching in the 90s when Seattle would have a rod, Griffey, and Edgar. That's quite a lineup. Randy Johnson...in the Kingdome. The 90s were the best
@alanlee673 жыл бұрын
When I was little he was playing winter league in Puerto Rico and before a game he was signing autographs, they made us get in a single line and only one autograph per kid, I had 5 baseball cards so I got in line 3 times and before Signing my 3rd one he laughed and said “ this is your 3rd time in line how many you baseball cards you got? I said 5 he signed the rest of them so I didn’t have to keep trying to get in line again, one of my favorite players of all time, so happy he finally got the call
@antoniojimenezjr575 жыл бұрын
what a time we live in. so much knowledge at our fingertips.
@Jack3dBrett6 жыл бұрын
Crazy right?
@DonBienveRosario155 жыл бұрын
?
@MIKExVICKx73 жыл бұрын
research hebrew cosmology
@r.a.tackey32303 жыл бұрын
A lot of bad hitting coaches out there too trying to revolutionize the wheel. Uppercut swings are trash stay in the zone as long as you can
@jlopez1017d2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@seandafny2 жыл бұрын
As a Mariner fan, I always thought that Edgar was the greatest student of hitting I've ever seen, while Griffey was the greatest natural hitter I've ever seen.
@westonstevens32395 жыл бұрын
Edgar absolutely raked
@johnjohnsonjohn Жыл бұрын
So many people teach you growing up that the back foot is the anchor and it should never move, only rotate. But the best Right handed hitter and DH of all time just blew all that dogma away. Balance and feel and transfer of power to the front foot let's the back foot move and keep the hips strong to hit for power to all fields. Edgar is a genius.
@TheAlaskaalex6 жыл бұрын
Trevor Story has the same kind of back foot slide as the Gar. But he's a pure pull hitter. I think it has more to do with the Gar's approach to hitting overall and the sliding foot merely gives him more "bat in the zone" time. I also recall Kyle Seager talking about how the Gar was coaching him to always think oppo against the FB which therefore allows for off speed pitches to still be met by the bat within "the zone" CtheZ.
@armychowmein80215 жыл бұрын
You can see Henry Aaron slide his back foot a little on the video for #715. Mike Schmidt and Gorman Thomas are two other old skool power hitters who also did something similar. I remember briefly trying it when I was a kid after I saw Schmidt do it. I should have stuck with it.
@unclestinky63885 жыл бұрын
Squash the bug though, right? Lol. The beauty of hitting - or teaching the art of hitting - is that there really isn't just one way to do it. It truly depends on the athlete. Of course you can change up routines or implement new drills or try to change body patterns/sequencing or build new muscle memory, among other things. All of that can be true. But the truth is - not all successful hitters move their bodies in the same way during their swing. You can certainly point to specific core principals that all successful hitters have in common, but that doesn't necessarily mean they all arrived at the point of contact in the same way.
@cheddarbob75405 жыл бұрын
@@unclestinky6388 watch the 1971 all-star game and you will see several examples of hitting off front foot.
@RickDesotell5 жыл бұрын
Altuve's back foot flies all over the place too.
@krakenmetzger4 жыл бұрын
One of my absolute favorite players growing up...Definite Hall of Fame player
@andrewwest73606 жыл бұрын
The all time greatest DH. The damn award is NAMED after him!!! Get Edgar in the HOF!!!!
@br20245 жыл бұрын
🤡🤡🤡🤡 big papi
@abrahangomez68163 жыл бұрын
@@abrahangomez6816 1. Ortiz wouldn’t have had a career if it weren’t for Edgar 2. Edgar is still a better hitter than him
@brody20873 жыл бұрын
@@brody2087 what?
@abrahangomez68163 жыл бұрын
@@abrahangomez6816 it’s true Ortiz was actually a Mariners prospect too lol
@A3Hoops3 жыл бұрын
Edgar way better hitter than David Ortiz, if you know about the sport, then shouldn’t be no doubts…..
@davidarcelay99246 ай бұрын
MLB network where is the 1-hour long hitting instruction series?!? This needs to be a permanent fixture on the net work and needs to have great majorly hitters from history breaking down how they did what they did. Please make this happen.
@hm2ls8692 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest right handed hitters of all time, finally got his due from Cooperstown. It's incredible to thing what his numbers would've looked like if he'd gotten playing time before his late 20s. Maybe 450 hrs, 3000 hits, close to 2000 walks, as many RBIs as David Ortiz, and, just maybe, the record for doubles. The dude was born to hit. I despise the DH, but Edgar was just so damn good at the hardest thing to do in American sports, how can he be denied?
@courtneyvaldez79035 жыл бұрын
dude is handicapped as well. I think its ok to bring it up since it involves his eyes. incredible what he could do.
@GlennTheSadMarinersFan4 жыл бұрын
Cooperstown came a calling! Congrats Edgar!
@kfeder765 жыл бұрын
One of the Greatest Right hander hitter of all time.
@lunchb0x_x1195 жыл бұрын
It’s a damn shame he’s not in Cooperstown yet
@wadeboshiverson6 жыл бұрын
Soon. Very soon.
@hr1meg5 жыл бұрын
No more shame he's in baby!
@floresaza2535 жыл бұрын
it is now wooooo!
@ianblake19805 жыл бұрын
He is now
@ALTAIR25 жыл бұрын
wadeboshiverson now he is
@timdavisfitness5 жыл бұрын
Edgar is the freakin' man!
@positively_broad_st37805 жыл бұрын
I am amazed by this unique but worked so well for him
@Aves02256 жыл бұрын
Edgar was a pure hitter.
@angierivera73053 жыл бұрын
So jealous of kids who have these videos to watch to improve their game. Wish I had stuff like this when I was growing up!
@kingtrav5 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking the exact same thing. You can basically have coaching from All-Stars and Hall of Famer just one click away. Amazing.
@justincarbone87155 жыл бұрын
Man!
@cbanks19804 жыл бұрын
If the NFL can have punters and kickers in the hall, the MLB should have DHs. Edgar was a hitting machine.
@wbdrugstrat5 жыл бұрын
Also in the MLB case, Closers and other relief pitchers.
@EchoesDistant2 жыл бұрын
That’s absolutely fascinating and contrary to pretty much everything I’ve ever learned, but he’s got a point-that swing path does seem to stay in the strike zone longer and flatter with the back foot moving back. Like Byrnes pointed out, that is really difficult to duplicate for a lot of people. It just goes to show you that there is no “one size fits all” methodology to hitting.
@drizzle4525 жыл бұрын
elbow in and palm up is the key with the back arm
@RickDesotell5 жыл бұрын
I think the thing I noticed with the back leg moving is it’s used on balls your more likely to roll over on like outside pitches and breaking balls.
@chrislewis5069 Жыл бұрын
Loved watching the mariners growing up with Edgar, Griffey, and all the others. But I've never actually heard Edgar speak until now. I know his last name is Martinez, but he looks like an American long haul trucker. It made me laugh to hear his Puerto Rican accent.
@preston08086 жыл бұрын
pzcanada was born in New York, but grew up in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
@Yanikleko5 жыл бұрын
Yanikleko makes sense
@preston08085 жыл бұрын
Hands down the most beloved Mariner of all time.
@roronoakora4861 Жыл бұрын
had the lucky pleasure of watching this man spend his entire career in my city/my gf little brother knows his son. i'm not quite sure if people realize how much of a hitting machine Edgar really was. the dude used to do this hitting drill where he'd write numbers on the ball and he wouldn't hit it unless he could read the correct number
@sea4our3 жыл бұрын
How would he be able to read a number on a ball that was spinning?
@matthewandrews388310 ай бұрын
@@matthewandrews3883 They described it a bit off. Edgar’s right eye wanders, so as a strengthening exercise, they would launch tennis balls through a pitching machine. The balls had numbers written on them, and he’d track them as far as he could until it was out of his peripheral, trying to identify the numbers. They were written in multiple spots on the ball. The funny thing is, other people attempted his drill, and had trouble reading the numbers even when the machine was set to 20mph. He’d take it up to 130mph sometimes! Absolutely incredible, his dedication. Before him, the DH was a way for an older player to hang on a couple more years. He took the position to the extreme. I am a BIG fan if you can’t tell 🙃
@thomaslemon39716 ай бұрын
Edgar needs to be in the Hall of Fame - MLB has an award named after him
@blackspokane44975 жыл бұрын
Edgar, by far one of my most favorite players ever. And this is coming from a Dodger fan too. That M's team with Junior, Olerud, Tino, Edgar, The Unit was just insane.
@senatorlainez3 жыл бұрын
if u want to pull the ball don't move the back foot, if u want to spray the ball to all fields move the back foot. Thanks Edgar, that help me a lot on my swing and it works.
@carlosriutort3 жыл бұрын
love mlb network for teaching everyone how to hit and pitch the best way
@MyWeedgrower5 жыл бұрын
A legend
@richie.edwards Жыл бұрын
When he was an active player i spent hours looking at his swing and i was surprised in his sweet swing. I wondered how easy look to hit the ball for him. Sweet, elegant, and effective batting swing!! i got frustraded i could´nt get to that!!
@MantrostTonyRojas20125 жыл бұрын
What a genius this man is, in his second language expertly conveys to the youth how to perfect the most minute detail of swinging a bat.
@lb2779 Жыл бұрын
This dude is awesome
@worldofwisdom6174 жыл бұрын
Best hitting video I've watched
@eddiejansen37712 жыл бұрын
Masters class!
@Thesdlefty12 жыл бұрын
I've been an avid fan of Edgar since early '04.. Never actually heard him speak before...
@teddyramaphala12844 жыл бұрын
That back leg movement makes perfect sense,but you have to know your abilities to,give that a try.What seperated Edgars elite hitting ability was his visual,acuity and ability to lay off of bad pitches.Dude was a stud bc he strayed in his hitting zone with that barrel longer than most and squared up balls more often than not and hammered those hanging off speed pitches as well...One of the best ever,period!.
@commomcents23 күн бұрын
Now I'm learning this after giving up on hitting!
@edgonzalez186 Жыл бұрын
As a Mariners fan, I can ask "Who doesn't love Edgar?"
@Jesusisyhwh2 жыл бұрын
What a stick Edgar was. And he seems like quite the gentleman, too.
@zoznack3 жыл бұрын
Edgar Martinez is one of the greatest hitters of the modern era, if not all time. The fact that they don't wanna put him in the HOF because he was primarily a DH is simply laughable.
@davidscott76265 жыл бұрын
imagine if he didn't have the eye problems. crazy
@GlennTheSadMarinersFan4 жыл бұрын
@@GlennTheSadMarinersFan and imagine if he played in his early 20s as well like JR and AROD did.
@matthewandrews388310 ай бұрын
the best DH!
@eddierivera85566 жыл бұрын
All that fuckin time and I never noticed that backstep. Crazy. I love these masterclasses.
@bengaltiger964 жыл бұрын
The back leg stepping back, I just noticed Ronald Acuna Jr doing the same thing.
@JW-dy8ruАй бұрын
There were literally people who were skeptical of him being in the hall bc he was a DH. Dumb!
@somerandomguy844 жыл бұрын
Makes it sound so simple
@MidwayGuy3 жыл бұрын
You definitely should do one with Ichiro
@Rabbit14A5 жыл бұрын
el mejor en la caja de bateo
@palomagarcia47215 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see him manage one day. Edgar is a true old school Hispanic baseball gentleman
@Shinobi333 жыл бұрын
The core stretch with this swing reminds me of how slapshots are preformed in hockey!
@NPRThatBlueCrayon4 жыл бұрын
Most elite hitters release the pressure on the back foot and end up on their front foot, with their back heel up, toe in the dirt- some slide the back foot forward in the “weightless part of their swing. To actually move that back foot in the way Edgar did is very unusual, and a real eye opener!
@geobrah19574 жыл бұрын
This doesn't explain why Trevor Story, who has the same movement with his back foot, is a pure pull hitter... I think it has more to do with the Gar's overall work ethic and approach to hitting.
@armychowmein80215 жыл бұрын
It doesn't mean you're going to automatically spray the ball all over the park just because you do this movement. Obviously there are many mechanics involved in a swing. The point is, it puts your body in a better position to do so.
@MrCplChicken3 жыл бұрын
Story isn’t, normally he leads the league in home runs on low outside sliders.
@jamescurth7012 жыл бұрын
That’s because Edgar hit just as much with his back foot not jutting out as he did when it did. Story pretty much always just his back foot out
@Garrett12402 жыл бұрын
EEEEEEEEDDDDDDDD-GGGAAARRRRR!!! Long live the Mariners!
@babc43235 жыл бұрын
Well also look at his front foot and where it lands when he’s driving the ball the other way. 1992 American League batting champ
@TheBoodog14 жыл бұрын
Edgar was superb. If he didn't have the most beautiful right-handed swing of all time, it was damn close. And this great hitter knew his craft up, down and sideways. Knew how to work a pitcher until he got a good ball to hit, while fouling others off. Knew when to hit straightaway, when to go after a dinger by pulling. Had eye trouble for many years. Countered it with strenuous eye exercises and bunting against a tennis-ball machine, which sent the spheres at WAAY over 100 mph. 150ish --
@stevevandien3103 жыл бұрын
Everyone: nobody can hit a homerun that’s in the wall Edgar: hold my beer
@jboyo584 жыл бұрын
Sweetest right handed swing ever.
@LancerJak5 жыл бұрын
mike trout does this too
@keeganramjit81116 жыл бұрын
I thought about how Barry never moved his back leg. I think little implements like this determine the makeup of the hitter. This man took personally being in batting title contention, meanwhile a slugger usually will want to be a bit more short and a sense of balance. Many different ways to be great in baseball, play to your advantages.
@lb2779 Жыл бұрын
It is time to rebuild the Mariner in Franchise mode
@jimtroclus5 жыл бұрын
Scooter Gennett does this too . but his foot goes toward the catcher.
@bartfox91875 жыл бұрын
Exactly on what he was saying on the back foot moving forward. So many players are taught to stay back, and that's not going to work
@Polymath295 жыл бұрын
Que paso con edgar martinez el periodista de univision
@joaquinayala96655 жыл бұрын
The back step is mental help. The best way is transfer the dynamics of the vectors to achieve contact in the final convergence. Example, T. Gwyn, D. Jeter also E. Martinez. in fact Edgar's step back is not as pronounced as that of Altuve and Cabrera. This technique is not the perfect foundation but a practice that makes these players have adopted as mental reinforcement.
4 жыл бұрын
I've noticed that those who move their back foot away from the plate during their swing have noticeably less open hips at the point of contact. I believe this is largely responsible for why they appear to hit less home runs than say a Mike Trout, Cody Bellinger or Freddie Freeman. These three exemplify the hitting style that predominates today and which I think is best suited to hitting homers, generally speaking, and perhaps deep line-drives too. These three , when at the point of contact all display rather open hips, little-to-no bend in the front knee/leg, and a slight back lean of the torso to get their hips out in front so that the sort-of 'unloading' process can be realized realized. The physics behind this type of hitting approach is much like a top when made to spin by our hand. To make a top spin fast enough to stay upright is impossible without first 'cocking' our wrist in one direction before unloading it back in the other, thus creating the conditions for the top to be spun with great enough velocity to remain upright for some period of time. When the pitcher is in his throwing motion the batters gather potential energy by slightly positioning their backs and to a lesser extent hips/glutes towards the pitcher creating the necessary displacement for a violent uncoiling. Foot, then hips begin to swing open followed by the torso which will naturally want to lean back to compensate for the lower half quickly accelerating out and away from one's center of gravity. This symphony of efficient movement creates the necessary force and acceleration to barrel the ball. Flaring out the back foot is usually a way to mitigate a number of shortcomings such as short stature (Altuve), loss of quick twitch speed due to age (Cabrera), or simply a batter just feels more capable of making contact by choosing not to maximize power through the hitting mechanics described above. A back foot sliding out and making some contact with the ground will act like a rod in a wheel's spokes by obstructing the body's ability to uncoil and 'swing-open' the midsection ever-so, hampering the power one can generate in theory.
@Garrett12403 жыл бұрын
when edgar talks about batting, you listen. edgar had such great bat control. jarred kelenic should takes some lessons from him. jarred is pulling everything.
@golfmaniac0072 жыл бұрын
this is crazy, another Ichiro
@yunghanhuang81883 жыл бұрын
😍
@smilesolutions4all6 жыл бұрын
Javy baez does it too
@AztecWarrior5955 жыл бұрын
not well
@Garrett12403 жыл бұрын
Introduce him with some respect....the HOF Edgar Martinez
@jaydee54475 жыл бұрын
not the back foot. Its the front foots step over when he lands that causes that making it very hard to fly open.
@birdchatterbaseball202420 күн бұрын
to think the Mariners had Ichiro, Vogelbach, Cruz, Haniger, Segura, and Gordon, yet they cant even make post season. Marlins x2
@baileysmith47444 жыл бұрын
Hank Aaron did that back foot thing a lot
@peterwyattmiddletonАй бұрын
Yuli Gurriel just won a batting tittle with the same approach at the plate.
@pdple94762 жыл бұрын
Great material. Destroys that "squish the bug" garbage taught by amateur coaches. One piece of advice: Eric Byrnes should talk less and allow the guest to talk more!
@dape89936 жыл бұрын
S"Squash the Bug" never worked for me. Once I hit about 12 I figured out that that phrase actually hurt my swing more than help it.
@Northeastbaseball6 жыл бұрын
dape True. You dont really even HAVE to step into a ball to hit it well. Just make solid contact and transfer your weight from the back foot to the front foot, right before you make contact. I actually never even realized before I saw this video, but this movement with the back foot that Edgar is demonstrating here, I naturally do this movement with my back foot too! Sweet!
@Kryptik335 жыл бұрын
Well Dusty Baker came out with that book, squish the bug, wish I never read it.
@knucleballfreedom5 жыл бұрын
I agree about Byrnes, but he can't help himself , hes hyperactive
@gouda21775 жыл бұрын
Jack Clark used to do this 30 years ago
@jason64bit192 жыл бұрын
Kids are lucky nowadays
@user-ck5hp1cy8o6 жыл бұрын
My dad used to get PISSED when me or my brothers would move our back foot when we were batting
@MajorChipHazard163 жыл бұрын
Non baseball people don’t understand how hard it is to hit a baseball
@mrwoody14133 жыл бұрын
Eeeeeeeeeeeedgarrrrrrrrrrrrrr
@polite_as_fuck5 жыл бұрын
This is Roberto Clemente style
@bmcjr422 жыл бұрын
How's the fielding?
@coldsnap57424 жыл бұрын
I guess I missed the section where he talked about fielding, where was that again?
@cohokid69363 жыл бұрын
@@cohokid6936 First rule in the book: "A game shall be played between two teams of nine players each." The nine players: Pitcher, catcher, first baseman, second baseman, third baseman, shortstop, left fielder, center fielder, right fielder. Where does Edgar fit in there?
@coldsnap57423 жыл бұрын
@@coldsnap5742 How about "I'm old school and prefer NL rules" rather than the route you took? DH is in play under AL rules. I can appreciate your opinion.
@cohokid69363 жыл бұрын
@@cohokid6936 So the very first rule in the book is wrong?
@coldsnap57423 жыл бұрын
@@coldsnap5742 Definite possibility
@cohokid69363 жыл бұрын
Are players in the MLB who have the ability to hit the ball in different Ways to the opposite of the field. But went you talk about a baseball player with all ability and discipline. than everybody knows who's his name.# 11 edgar Martinez .
@joseberrios59705 жыл бұрын
Edgar with the bat in his hands here looks a lot like the Babe
@rovinsingh46985 жыл бұрын
4 minutes before Edgar talks, typical MLB.
@daveerhardt18795 жыл бұрын
That looks a lot like Roger Federer's backhand footwork
@the_stewbear4 жыл бұрын
The dude closest to the screen looks like old josh donaldson
@theoweller26624 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately Mike Zunino has never hit over .230 in any season during his career
@ihavesoul4real5 жыл бұрын
Ask mariano rivera about this gentleman
@reinubeton4 жыл бұрын
There's nothing revolutionary about any of this. Edgar didn't do anything different than hitters before him.
@lochnessmonster51492 жыл бұрын
Sup
@davestephanieanderson95036 жыл бұрын
Hey
@maxstevenson51836 жыл бұрын
Dude on right looks like marty mcflys dad
@balkee423 жыл бұрын
Where is the mlb network headquarters?
@alecmcjarison9996 жыл бұрын
New jersey
@Northeastbaseball6 жыл бұрын
Secacus
@adrianrodriguez42015 жыл бұрын
113th comment
@staciemohler46243 жыл бұрын
Miguel Cabrera is great, one of the best. He’s still no Martinez though. Still HOF for sure.
@joshuapatrick682 Жыл бұрын
Eso quiere q altuve y cabrera le robaron la movida a martienz y todavia dicen q ortiz fue mejor q el ustedes esta bn loco ,ese tipo es una bestia edgar es edgar el mejor siempre sera el papa
@hectorrivera76862 жыл бұрын
People over complicate the athletic mechanics of power. Load and release. In Baseball there is throwing and hitting. When a pitcher throws the ball, their back driving leg is off the ground at the point of release. In hitting the back leg is either spinning or comes off the ground for a moment depending on where the pitch is they are trying to hit. This results in maximum force. You can just twist at the trunk if you want, but the power will be diminished. NOTE: This is simple...but not easy to master as it takes thousands of swings and pitches to develop and train the brain and the body to maximize force under control.
@nephi304 жыл бұрын
who cut their hair?
@diego74475 жыл бұрын
Marcel osuna,Bruce harper do the same thing
@maikelrodriguez11422 жыл бұрын
Everyone from NY voted thumbs down
@alneri90412 жыл бұрын
FIRST COMMENT
@smilesolutions4all6 жыл бұрын
Guy in the blue suit needs to realize he's not 20 years old and that hair doesn't suit him.
@TSNAnnotator5 жыл бұрын
He should also wear brown shoes with a any kind of blue suit...Terrible hair and shoes.
@telephonic5 жыл бұрын
Edgar Congrats on the Hall, but please find a new barber lmao
@my9goesbang5 жыл бұрын
What I will say is when you’re stronger, it’s easier to control the bat. Everything in hitting comes down to your ability to control the bat through the hitting zone. Edgar gained an advantage from juicing, but I won’t deny he has knowledge on how to be a great hitter.
@GG-lr3gv3 жыл бұрын
Stop ! Backfoot ? Thats like practicing the way Vladimer Guererro hit. Just find your way to stay on plane with the ball.
I remember watching in the 90s when Seattle would have a rod, Griffey, and Edgar. That's quite a lineup. Randy Johnson...in the Kingdome. The 90s were the best
When I was little he was playing winter league in Puerto Rico and before a game he was signing autographs, they made us get in a single line and only one autograph per kid, I had 5 baseball cards so I got in line 3 times and before Signing my 3rd one he laughed and said “ this is your 3rd time in line how many you baseball cards you got? I said 5 he signed the rest of them so I didn’t have to keep trying to get in line again, one of my favorite players of all time, so happy he finally got the call
what a time we live in. so much knowledge at our fingertips.
Crazy right?
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research hebrew cosmology
A lot of bad hitting coaches out there too trying to revolutionize the wheel. Uppercut swings are trash stay in the zone as long as you can
Yes
As a Mariner fan, I always thought that Edgar was the greatest student of hitting I've ever seen, while Griffey was the greatest natural hitter I've ever seen.
Edgar absolutely raked
So many people teach you growing up that the back foot is the anchor and it should never move, only rotate. But the best Right handed hitter and DH of all time just blew all that dogma away. Balance and feel and transfer of power to the front foot let's the back foot move and keep the hips strong to hit for power to all fields. Edgar is a genius.
Trevor Story has the same kind of back foot slide as the Gar. But he's a pure pull hitter. I think it has more to do with the Gar's approach to hitting overall and the sliding foot merely gives him more "bat in the zone" time. I also recall Kyle Seager talking about how the Gar was coaching him to always think oppo against the FB which therefore allows for off speed pitches to still be met by the bat within "the zone" CtheZ.
You can see Henry Aaron slide his back foot a little on the video for #715. Mike Schmidt and Gorman Thomas are two other old skool power hitters who also did something similar. I remember briefly trying it when I was a kid after I saw Schmidt do it. I should have stuck with it.
Squash the bug though, right? Lol. The beauty of hitting - or teaching the art of hitting - is that there really isn't just one way to do it. It truly depends on the athlete. Of course you can change up routines or implement new drills or try to change body patterns/sequencing or build new muscle memory, among other things. All of that can be true. But the truth is - not all successful hitters move their bodies in the same way during their swing. You can certainly point to specific core principals that all successful hitters have in common, but that doesn't necessarily mean they all arrived at the point of contact in the same way.
@@unclestinky6388 watch the 1971 all-star game and you will see several examples of hitting off front foot.
Altuve's back foot flies all over the place too.
One of my absolute favorite players growing up...Definite Hall of Fame player
The all time greatest DH. The damn award is NAMED after him!!! Get Edgar in the HOF!!!!
🤡🤡🤡🤡 big papi
@@abrahangomez6816 1. Ortiz wouldn’t have had a career if it weren’t for Edgar 2. Edgar is still a better hitter than him
@@brody2087 what?
@@abrahangomez6816 it’s true Ortiz was actually a Mariners prospect too lol
Edgar way better hitter than David Ortiz, if you know about the sport, then shouldn’t be no doubts…..
MLB network where is the 1-hour long hitting instruction series?!? This needs to be a permanent fixture on the net work and needs to have great majorly hitters from history breaking down how they did what they did. Please make this happen.
One of the greatest right handed hitters of all time, finally got his due from Cooperstown. It's incredible to thing what his numbers would've looked like if he'd gotten playing time before his late 20s. Maybe 450 hrs, 3000 hits, close to 2000 walks, as many RBIs as David Ortiz, and, just maybe, the record for doubles. The dude was born to hit. I despise the DH, but Edgar was just so damn good at the hardest thing to do in American sports, how can he be denied?
dude is handicapped as well. I think its ok to bring it up since it involves his eyes. incredible what he could do.
Cooperstown came a calling! Congrats Edgar!
One of the Greatest Right hander hitter of all time.
It’s a damn shame he’s not in Cooperstown yet
Soon. Very soon.
No more shame he's in baby!
it is now wooooo!
He is now
wadeboshiverson now he is
Edgar is the freakin' man!
I am amazed by this unique but worked so well for him
Edgar was a pure hitter.
So jealous of kids who have these videos to watch to improve their game. Wish I had stuff like this when I was growing up!
I was just thinking the exact same thing. You can basically have coaching from All-Stars and Hall of Famer just one click away. Amazing.
Man!
If the NFL can have punters and kickers in the hall, the MLB should have DHs. Edgar was a hitting machine.
Also in the MLB case, Closers and other relief pitchers.
That’s absolutely fascinating and contrary to pretty much everything I’ve ever learned, but he’s got a point-that swing path does seem to stay in the strike zone longer and flatter with the back foot moving back. Like Byrnes pointed out, that is really difficult to duplicate for a lot of people. It just goes to show you that there is no “one size fits all” methodology to hitting.
elbow in and palm up is the key with the back arm
I think the thing I noticed with the back leg moving is it’s used on balls your more likely to roll over on like outside pitches and breaking balls.
Loved watching the mariners growing up with Edgar, Griffey, and all the others. But I've never actually heard Edgar speak until now. I know his last name is Martinez, but he looks like an American long haul trucker. It made me laugh to hear his Puerto Rican accent.
pzcanada was born in New York, but grew up in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
Yanikleko makes sense
Hands down the most beloved Mariner of all time.
had the lucky pleasure of watching this man spend his entire career in my city/my gf little brother knows his son. i'm not quite sure if people realize how much of a hitting machine Edgar really was. the dude used to do this hitting drill where he'd write numbers on the ball and he wouldn't hit it unless he could read the correct number
How would he be able to read a number on a ball that was spinning?
@@matthewandrews3883 They described it a bit off. Edgar’s right eye wanders, so as a strengthening exercise, they would launch tennis balls through a pitching machine. The balls had numbers written on them, and he’d track them as far as he could until it was out of his peripheral, trying to identify the numbers. They were written in multiple spots on the ball. The funny thing is, other people attempted his drill, and had trouble reading the numbers even when the machine was set to 20mph. He’d take it up to 130mph sometimes! Absolutely incredible, his dedication. Before him, the DH was a way for an older player to hang on a couple more years. He took the position to the extreme. I am a BIG fan if you can’t tell 🙃
Edgar needs to be in the Hall of Fame - MLB has an award named after him
Edgar, by far one of my most favorite players ever. And this is coming from a Dodger fan too. That M's team with Junior, Olerud, Tino, Edgar, The Unit was just insane.
if u want to pull the ball don't move the back foot, if u want to spray the ball to all fields move the back foot. Thanks Edgar, that help me a lot on my swing and it works.
love mlb network for teaching everyone how to hit and pitch the best way
A legend
When he was an active player i spent hours looking at his swing and i was surprised in his sweet swing. I wondered how easy look to hit the ball for him. Sweet, elegant, and effective batting swing!! i got frustraded i could´nt get to that!!
What a genius this man is, in his second language expertly conveys to the youth how to perfect the most minute detail of swinging a bat.
This dude is awesome
Best hitting video I've watched
Masters class!
I've been an avid fan of Edgar since early '04.. Never actually heard him speak before...
That back leg movement makes perfect sense,but you have to know your abilities to,give that a try.What seperated Edgars elite hitting ability was his visual,acuity and ability to lay off of bad pitches.Dude was a stud bc he strayed in his hitting zone with that barrel longer than most and squared up balls more often than not and hammered those hanging off speed pitches as well...One of the best ever,period!.
Now I'm learning this after giving up on hitting!
As a Mariners fan, I can ask "Who doesn't love Edgar?"
What a stick Edgar was. And he seems like quite the gentleman, too.
Edgar Martinez is one of the greatest hitters of the modern era, if not all time. The fact that they don't wanna put him in the HOF because he was primarily a DH is simply laughable.
imagine if he didn't have the eye problems. crazy
@@GlennTheSadMarinersFan and imagine if he played in his early 20s as well like JR and AROD did.
the best DH!
All that fuckin time and I never noticed that backstep. Crazy. I love these masterclasses.
The back leg stepping back, I just noticed Ronald Acuna Jr doing the same thing.
There were literally people who were skeptical of him being in the hall bc he was a DH. Dumb!
Makes it sound so simple
You definitely should do one with Ichiro
el mejor en la caja de bateo
I'd love to see him manage one day. Edgar is a true old school Hispanic baseball gentleman
The core stretch with this swing reminds me of how slapshots are preformed in hockey!
Most elite hitters release the pressure on the back foot and end up on their front foot, with their back heel up, toe in the dirt- some slide the back foot forward in the “weightless part of their swing. To actually move that back foot in the way Edgar did is very unusual, and a real eye opener!
This doesn't explain why Trevor Story, who has the same movement with his back foot, is a pure pull hitter... I think it has more to do with the Gar's overall work ethic and approach to hitting.
It doesn't mean you're going to automatically spray the ball all over the park just because you do this movement. Obviously there are many mechanics involved in a swing. The point is, it puts your body in a better position to do so.
Story isn’t, normally he leads the league in home runs on low outside sliders.
That’s because Edgar hit just as much with his back foot not jutting out as he did when it did. Story pretty much always just his back foot out
EEEEEEEEDDDDDDDD-GGGAAARRRRR!!! Long live the Mariners!
Well also look at his front foot and where it lands when he’s driving the ball the other way. 1992 American League batting champ
Edgar was superb. If he didn't have the most beautiful right-handed swing of all time, it was damn close. And this great hitter knew his craft up, down and sideways. Knew how to work a pitcher until he got a good ball to hit, while fouling others off. Knew when to hit straightaway, when to go after a dinger by pulling. Had eye trouble for many years. Countered it with strenuous eye exercises and bunting against a tennis-ball machine, which sent the spheres at WAAY over 100 mph. 150ish --
Everyone: nobody can hit a homerun that’s in the wall Edgar: hold my beer
Sweetest right handed swing ever.
mike trout does this too
I thought about how Barry never moved his back leg. I think little implements like this determine the makeup of the hitter. This man took personally being in batting title contention, meanwhile a slugger usually will want to be a bit more short and a sense of balance. Many different ways to be great in baseball, play to your advantages.
It is time to rebuild the Mariner in Franchise mode
Scooter Gennett does this too . but his foot goes toward the catcher.
Exactly on what he was saying on the back foot moving forward. So many players are taught to stay back, and that's not going to work
Que paso con edgar martinez el periodista de univision
The back step is mental help. The best way is transfer the dynamics of the vectors to achieve contact in the final convergence. Example, T. Gwyn, D. Jeter also E. Martinez. in fact Edgar's step back is not as pronounced as that of Altuve and Cabrera. This technique is not the perfect foundation but a practice that makes these players have adopted as mental reinforcement.
I've noticed that those who move their back foot away from the plate during their swing have noticeably less open hips at the point of contact. I believe this is largely responsible for why they appear to hit less home runs than say a Mike Trout, Cody Bellinger or Freddie Freeman. These three exemplify the hitting style that predominates today and which I think is best suited to hitting homers, generally speaking, and perhaps deep line-drives too. These three , when at the point of contact all display rather open hips, little-to-no bend in the front knee/leg, and a slight back lean of the torso to get their hips out in front so that the sort-of 'unloading' process can be realized realized. The physics behind this type of hitting approach is much like a top when made to spin by our hand. To make a top spin fast enough to stay upright is impossible without first 'cocking' our wrist in one direction before unloading it back in the other, thus creating the conditions for the top to be spun with great enough velocity to remain upright for some period of time. When the pitcher is in his throwing motion the batters gather potential energy by slightly positioning their backs and to a lesser extent hips/glutes towards the pitcher creating the necessary displacement for a violent uncoiling. Foot, then hips begin to swing open followed by the torso which will naturally want to lean back to compensate for the lower half quickly accelerating out and away from one's center of gravity. This symphony of efficient movement creates the necessary force and acceleration to barrel the ball. Flaring out the back foot is usually a way to mitigate a number of shortcomings such as short stature (Altuve), loss of quick twitch speed due to age (Cabrera), or simply a batter just feels more capable of making contact by choosing not to maximize power through the hitting mechanics described above. A back foot sliding out and making some contact with the ground will act like a rod in a wheel's spokes by obstructing the body's ability to uncoil and 'swing-open' the midsection ever-so, hampering the power one can generate in theory.
when edgar talks about batting, you listen. edgar had such great bat control. jarred kelenic should takes some lessons from him. jarred is pulling everything.
this is crazy, another Ichiro
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Javy baez does it too
not well
Introduce him with some respect....the HOF Edgar Martinez
not the back foot. Its the front foots step over when he lands that causes that making it very hard to fly open.
to think the Mariners had Ichiro, Vogelbach, Cruz, Haniger, Segura, and Gordon, yet they cant even make post season. Marlins x2
Hank Aaron did that back foot thing a lot
Yuli Gurriel just won a batting tittle with the same approach at the plate.
Great material. Destroys that "squish the bug" garbage taught by amateur coaches. One piece of advice: Eric Byrnes should talk less and allow the guest to talk more!
S"Squash the Bug" never worked for me. Once I hit about 12 I figured out that that phrase actually hurt my swing more than help it.
dape True. You dont really even HAVE to step into a ball to hit it well. Just make solid contact and transfer your weight from the back foot to the front foot, right before you make contact. I actually never even realized before I saw this video, but this movement with the back foot that Edgar is demonstrating here, I naturally do this movement with my back foot too! Sweet!
Well Dusty Baker came out with that book, squish the bug, wish I never read it.
I agree about Byrnes, but he can't help himself , hes hyperactive
Jack Clark used to do this 30 years ago
Kids are lucky nowadays
My dad used to get PISSED when me or my brothers would move our back foot when we were batting
Non baseball people don’t understand how hard it is to hit a baseball
Eeeeeeeeeeeedgarrrrrrrrrrrrrr
This is Roberto Clemente style
How's the fielding?
I guess I missed the section where he talked about fielding, where was that again?
@@cohokid6936 First rule in the book: "A game shall be played between two teams of nine players each." The nine players: Pitcher, catcher, first baseman, second baseman, third baseman, shortstop, left fielder, center fielder, right fielder. Where does Edgar fit in there?
@@coldsnap5742 How about "I'm old school and prefer NL rules" rather than the route you took? DH is in play under AL rules. I can appreciate your opinion.
@@cohokid6936 So the very first rule in the book is wrong?
@@coldsnap5742 Definite possibility
Are players in the MLB who have the ability to hit the ball in different Ways to the opposite of the field. But went you talk about a baseball player with all ability and discipline. than everybody knows who's his name.# 11 edgar Martinez .
Edgar with the bat in his hands here looks a lot like the Babe
4 minutes before Edgar talks, typical MLB.
That looks a lot like Roger Federer's backhand footwork
The dude closest to the screen looks like old josh donaldson
Unfortunately Mike Zunino has never hit over .230 in any season during his career
Ask mariano rivera about this gentleman
There's nothing revolutionary about any of this. Edgar didn't do anything different than hitters before him.
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Dude on right looks like marty mcflys dad
Where is the mlb network headquarters?
New jersey
Secacus
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Miguel Cabrera is great, one of the best. He’s still no Martinez though. Still HOF for sure.
Eso quiere q altuve y cabrera le robaron la movida a martienz y todavia dicen q ortiz fue mejor q el ustedes esta bn loco ,ese tipo es una bestia edgar es edgar el mejor siempre sera el papa
People over complicate the athletic mechanics of power. Load and release. In Baseball there is throwing and hitting. When a pitcher throws the ball, their back driving leg is off the ground at the point of release. In hitting the back leg is either spinning or comes off the ground for a moment depending on where the pitch is they are trying to hit. This results in maximum force. You can just twist at the trunk if you want, but the power will be diminished. NOTE: This is simple...but not easy to master as it takes thousands of swings and pitches to develop and train the brain and the body to maximize force under control.
who cut their hair?
Marcel osuna,Bruce harper do the same thing
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Guy in the blue suit needs to realize he's not 20 years old and that hair doesn't suit him.
He should also wear brown shoes with a any kind of blue suit...Terrible hair and shoes.
Edgar Congrats on the Hall, but please find a new barber lmao
What I will say is when you’re stronger, it’s easier to control the bat. Everything in hitting comes down to your ability to control the bat through the hitting zone. Edgar gained an advantage from juicing, but I won’t deny he has knowledge on how to be a great hitter.
Stop ! Backfoot ? Thats like practicing the way Vladimer Guererro hit. Just find your way to stay on plane with the ball.