Does being in the Home Run Derby mess up your swing???

Question

Does being in the Home Run Derby mess up your swing???

Answer 1

That is why the stars won't participate in it.

Answer 2

yes it make you focus on hitting home run balls and during the derby the ball is easier to hit than a regular pitch in a game probably making it easier to hit a pop up

Answer 3

For some players it has messed up a swing. In the derby, you tend to uppercut the ball and that may carry on to the 2nd half.

Answer 4

yes cuz great home run hitters like arod or pujols dey can hit home runs to all feilds and wen dere locked in dere hitting it to all parts of the ball park and wen ur in da derby u jus pull the ball which messes up ur swing

Answer 5

It may because your training your self to swing uper cut and over swing to hit homeruns. Your repetidly doing it. And your swings looks long. You get comfortable doing it. So it brings over into the season. Than after a while and your slumping your long upercut overpowering swings becomes second nature and it makes it difficult to turn it back to a short compact swing. But somepeople are good with it.

Answer 6

No, that's just a myth.

Answer 7

not if ur swinginng to hard with an uper cut

Answer 8

I think it does.

Answer 9

Trying to hit homeruns on pitching that is slower that what you would see in a game means you start to overswing to get more power and you try to hit he ball in the air which isn't something you want to do in a game.

And secondly A-Rod didn't hit enough homers to be in the derby. idiot.

Answer 10

Thats just what the guys who are too scared to accept the invite to it say.

It doesnt mess up your swing, its essentially televised batting practice.

ARod just needs to man up and participate in the Home Run Derby, after all it was at Yankee Stadium this year, his own home park.

Answer 11

It does because i ask my brother each year why isn't a-rod in it. he says it messes up his swing.

Answer 12

Some times it does some times it doesnt

like everybody says it does but Albert Pujols was in it and he hasnt stopped

Same with Matt Holliday...

But in other cases, it did (Bobby Abreu, Alex Rios)

Answer 13

It shouldn't.  These are the best of the best hitters in baseball.  They should be able to adjust from pulling the ball for one night back to the swing they have been working on for years.  Only a handful of players have gone from the HR Derby to struggle.  Most of those players are simply a product of aging.  i.e Bobby Abreu.

Answer 14

it only messes up your swing because the guy pitching to you is slower then a proffesional but other than that no. its all in the timing of your swing the techinic is the same

Answer 15

I think its an excuse for not wanting to compete

Answer 16

Only if you win:) Have you ever noticed it is the winner of the HRD that falters after the break and that is the excuse the media accepts.  For ex the other 7 players (last year) continued on, Pudge, Pujols ect... But Vladdy took a nose dive right after the break, hmmm..

Answer 17

It's just like taking Batting practice. Same pitches. I dont think it messes up your swing. But then again.....Josh Hamilton, Justin Morneau, Chase Utley, Ryan Braun, and lance Berkman may say otherwise.

Answer 18

If your David Wright it does