Stan Musial : Baseball Rebellion Swing Breakdown

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@Krakow2009JPB 7 жыл бұрын

Musial hit 30 more HRs in 6 seasons. He's third all-time in doubles (behind Rose and Speaker). No one has hit more triples since Musial retired. Everybody talks about the 7 batting titles but a telling statistic is often overlooked: Stan Musial's career slugging percentage is higher than Mays, Mantle or Aaron's

@nunestunes 6 жыл бұрын

If I recall played in a big ball park too. Could of had 500 homers.

@robertaxel 6 жыл бұрын

Stan hit 39 homers in his best year (1948) and had two rained out. As noted, he had missed a couple of years in service, and played in large parks, he definitely could have ended up with over 500. He is also one of only 2 players to hit 5 homers in a double header.

@vegasraiderspetef9883 5 жыл бұрын

2nd all time in total bases still

@dantedlane2 2 жыл бұрын

His last year also is the only time he striked out more then he walked his obp is insane

@ThekiBoran 2 жыл бұрын

@M Soccer is big in how many countries? You are definitely full of caca.

@alcidesrios7222 Жыл бұрын

That’s an awesome looking swing. Love the old school look of the swings. Despite no technology where they can learn techniques, these Old School players had natural style. Love it

@johnschuh8616 8 ай бұрын

Think he was a gymnast like other Poles in his area. Stronger than his weight suggests. Began as a pitcher but hurt his arm. so that was not as good as it had been when started out.

@Donbarbz 2 жыл бұрын

Musial is one of the top 10 greatest hitters that ever lived. Beautifully efficient swing with elite hand eye coordination and timing. Bat stays flat thru the strike zone with great extension and follow thru. Great great hitter. Cobb, Williams, Musial, Mays, DiMaggio, Gehrig, Ruth, Gwynn and Yastrzemski were all terrific in their day.

@freeguy77 2 жыл бұрын

Except for Cobb, Williams, Ruth, and Gehrig, plus Hornsby, I can't put any other hitters overall better than The Man. He beat DiMag in BA/OBP,; beat Gwynn in OBP, SLG. Beat Aaron, Mays, and Yaz by huge margins in BA/OBP, and shockingly for many "experts," also in SLG, OPS, and OPS+ ! Look it up! The Man in SLG% .559, Mays .557, Aaron .555. Why do HRs by itself mean more than total Hits, BA, OBP, or the SLG% which should get far more importance!

@roncaruso931 7 ай бұрын

Ever hear of Mantle?

@Donbarbz 6 ай бұрын

@roncaruso931 more of a raw power hitter. Didn't hit consistently for the average of the other guys I named. Good day sir

@roncaruso931 6 ай бұрын

@@DonbarbzGood day to you!

@midnightrider1523 6 жыл бұрын

My Dad served in Vietnam with his uncle, Joe Musial. They called him SGT. Rock. I had the pleasure of meeting him at his home in Michigan before he passed.

@lloydkline1518 2 жыл бұрын

Lucky, ❤️ stan musial, baseball hitting magician

@spinedoc18 4 жыл бұрын

My Dad was also Stan, and although he was a die hard Dimaggio and Mantle NYY fan, he patterned his left handed swing after Stan the Man.

@lloydkline6946 3 жыл бұрын

It was like the legendary Boston red socks power hitter Yaz

@cards1985 8 жыл бұрын

Stan Musial will always be The Man!

@charlottebutler8210 Жыл бұрын

Even Albert Pujols gave up his number 6 and wore 5 instead, out of respect. Albert also gave up on people calling him the man. He felt Stan Musial was (and always will be) The Man😎✅😎

@charlottebutler8210 Жыл бұрын

I hope you take time to listen to the entire eulogy of Stan Musial by Bob Costas. It reflects how we in St. Louis revere him as incredible human being ❤

@jayden8636 3 жыл бұрын

Underrated af

@trajanII Жыл бұрын

Only 21k views what's wrong with these people? Stand the Man and almost perfect analysis

@bobbarradell9854 4 ай бұрын

Great, except you don't talk about the most important part, keeping his hands back. While his whole body is going forward, his hands going back, allowing him to swing very late. This allows him to dominate the fastball, which takes the sting out of the breaking balls. Williams, Mays, etc. all do this. Cheers.

@sunzeneise 5 жыл бұрын

He was a doubles hitting machine.

@dropwizerorders501 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. He averaged 40+ doubles a year for something like 16 years.

@lloydkline6946 3 жыл бұрын

Stan manual was like switch hitter pete rose, however stan musial could hit homeruns

@lloydkline1518 2 жыл бұрын

Pete rose& stan musial super great double hitter

@BluesImprov 4 жыл бұрын

A couple of things. . .Stan hit 475 career Home Runs and without having lost a year to WWII he might have been in the 500 HR Club. And Stan had MORE TOTAL BASES than ANY left-handed hitter in history. . .ANY left-handed hitter!!! Also, he played in 24 All-Star games and his 6 All-Star game HR's are the most by any player. He also hit the walk-off HR to win the 1955 All-Star game. I liked your analysis except for the times when you said something about his swing wasn't "optimal". . .Optimal for what? There is way too much analysis of swings in baseball anyway. . .Musial moved in the way that was "natural" for him. And that's why he was great. Players who have to "work" at their hitting "style" are players who don't have the natural ability of a Stan Musial. I cringe at the thought of ANY coach or hitting "expert" saying ANYTHING to Stan about how to hit a baseball. Some people have natural ability and should be LEFT ALONE and not analyzed or "coached". Also, many of the better photos of Stan following through after hitting the ball show his bat to be incredibly level. He hit wicked line drives for extra bases much of the time, and he knew how to go with a pitch. You want to pitch him outside? Fine, he'll line it into the left-field corner for a double. Musial is the only player ever to have 50 doubles and 20 triples in the same season. Stan didn't have to think about where his hands were or the movement of his hips or any of that stuff. He had natural ability. . .like all of the great ones do. By the way, 1815 hits at home and 1815 hits on the road for 3630 lifetime. . .That's consistency.

@vivalavivarium 2 жыл бұрын

I was a terrible hitter for most my youth until one coach for whatever reason told me to step very early in the wind up, so I literally would just use my torque toto swing. I became the one of the best hitters in saint louis but still got cut from my highschool team because I hit weird. Then my new club tried to change my style back to normal and I started playing terrible again. Not going to lie, felt like I was being oppressed from living my dream just because I didn't conform. Everyone has a style and the idea of an optimal style in what is keeping baseball from expanding into europe where soccer is the main sport and every player is incredibly unique.

@JbrickM100A Жыл бұрын

They’ll never be another one like him again certainly in my lifetime. So fortunate I got to see him hit a home run against the Dodgers at the LA Coliseum in 1960 b4 Dodger Stadium was completed!

@researcher3981 Жыл бұрын

Musial in reality was worth 700+ home runs, follows this: His first 5 years he didn't try to elevate the ball: (5yrs) ab 2910 h 995 hr 71 ba.342 (10yrs) ab 5776 h 1538 hr 310 ba .340 and what you don't know is that his home park, Sportsman Park in St. Louis had a 11 1/2 ft high wall along rf to cf with a 25 ft high screen on top of that total of 36 1/2 you had to clear for a home run! HE HIT 201 BALL OFF THAT SCREEN IN HIS CAREEAR 72 singles 107 doubles 22 triples ALL OF WHICH WOULD HAVE BENN HOME RUNS IN MOST PARKS! ESPECIALLY IN BOSTON OR YANKEE STADIUM, WHERE THEIR WALLS WER LESS THAN 5 FT HIGH. Now imagine this...what if he had elevated the first 5 years and hit the same average that he did the next 10 years, which was 31 31x5= 155- the 71 he hit =+84 hr + 31 for War year missed= 115 hr's gained plus his 475 = 590 home runs not unreasonable. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE 201 OFF THAT HIGH SCREEN that would have been hr's almost every ware else? 590 =201 =791?? If only 110 of those balls were hr's = 700 Even Ted Williams admitted to his son that Stan Musial was as good a hitter as he was.

@jameshudson169 Жыл бұрын

babe ruth PITCHED for the first years of his career!

@wizard1687 Жыл бұрын

Stan was a pitcher in the minors til he hurt his arm. Cards gave the kid a shot as a rull time position player. Worked out okay

@stevengraham3138 Жыл бұрын

He also hit 5 hr in a double header

@MrRufusRToyota 3 жыл бұрын

Also they had to hit it farther. Most parks were bigger.

@davethebarber62920 5 жыл бұрын

Hit 30 HRs like once? Seriously? Try 30 or more 6 times and 475 total.

@BaseballRebellion 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, that’s my bad there. Thanks for the fact check!

@TheFaithfulAtheist Жыл бұрын

He woulda had 500 if he hadn't lost that prime year to the service.

@edwardrossman9448 4 жыл бұрын

mix in some research - hit 27 or more homers 9 times. third all time in doubles, near top in triples, not just hitter for average

@freeguy77 2 жыл бұрын

That SLG% .559 beats Mantle, Mays, and Aaron! Raw number of HRs are not good enough when Aaron had almost 2,000 more ABs to hit more HRs.

@jessetheghost7843 6 жыл бұрын

Great video dude , very knowledgeable, too many coaches these days mirco manage the heck out of everything and wind up doing more harm than good and what happened to the pitchers who throw a full 8-9 innings , you almost cant compare players of old to the modern era , kids can learn alot from Stan the Man !

@BaseballRebellion 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jesse!

@s.webbsentell1411 9 ай бұрын

Well done sir!

@charlottebutler8210 Жыл бұрын

My mom love to watch him set his stance! I have a strong suspicion it was not as much about his swing. 😂🤩

@robertaxel 2 жыл бұрын

Stan lost 2 homers in 1948 to rain outs which cost him the triple crown. He would have had 41, where Ralph Kiner and Ted Kluszewski had 40...

@freeguy77 2 жыл бұрын

He had ONE rained out, not two. 40 would have tied him with Kiner and Klu to give him the rare Triple Crown honor.

@stevevandien310 7 жыл бұрын

Much good, thought-provoking analysis. I would, however, like to have seen Stan's swing and stride at full speed first, THEN his full stride and swing from beginning to end several times, at progressively slower speeds --

@BaseballRebellion 7 жыл бұрын

Steve thanks for watching. Yes, right after these videos we started making sure we played them in full before we broke them down. Please share! - JK Whited

@zachariahritter 2 ай бұрын

Got to try it out at chuch ball!

@stevenledbetter9997 11 ай бұрын

You're a bit dismissive of Musial as compared to modern players as if baseball in the 40's and 50's was inferior. The players today couldn't hold Musial's jockstrap. Cobb called him the perfect player.

@DoubleJ1203 6 жыл бұрын

Can you do one of Eddie Mathews?

@tonyanthonyfowler 5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me a bit of cano

@1176hambone 6 жыл бұрын

Can we see the swing in slow motion? Damnit

@omaroba1490 5 жыл бұрын

You can slow down the speed of video on KZbin by going to option speed section make it .5 half speed.

@andersonsmith2821 6 жыл бұрын

never mentioned today is the fact that players of yore did not wear batting helmets. HUGE difference when you see Barry Bonds protected by ear-flap helmets, forearm pads, shin pads etc. vs the unprotected player of the past. OF COURSE it is easier knowing you will not be killed, or bones shattered by a blazing fastball!!!