Motor Tract 1 and Motor Tract 5 produce motion entirely different from one another. Motor Tract 5 continues to cause mechanical nightmares for pitchers and hitters because they don’t understand the different ways our peripheral nervous system alerts our central nervous system to

Nick Kurtz uses the muscles of motor tract 1 when he hits…. Christian Moore uses the muscles of motor tract 5 when he hits…. Kurtz is hitting .315 with 26 HR’s…. Moore is hitting .191 with 3 HR’s…. Hitters that swing with the muscles of motor tract 1 get to use the

Why is Motor Tract 1 superior to Motor Tract 5 for hitters?. Simply put, the muscles pulling on the bones of our forearm create better angles for a hitter to accelerate through the middle of the baseball field…. Here is a closer look at a swing launched with the abductor

Ceddanne Rafaela is hitting .193 with O HR’s in August…. He hit .287 with 5 HR’s in June…. Rafaela has been using the muscles of motor tract 5 more and more recently…. When he’s at his best he uses the muscles of motor tract 1…. Sooner or later professional baseball

Kyle Tucker has been using the EXACT SAME SWING MECHANICS he used for most of spring training (He hit .100 in 30 at bats)…. The change in how his body moves when he swings has nothing to do with his hand injury…. The longer this gets ignored, the longer he’ll go using these

Shohei Ohtani has given up 9 runs over his last 2 starts and now has an ERA of 4.61…. He has an ERA of 1.86 when he was named the MVP of the 2023 WBC…. Back then Shohei used the muscles of motor tract 1 and motor tract 2 to power his delivery…. Now he uses the muscles of

Jacob Misiorowski has now given up 19 hits and 14 runs over his last 21 IP…. He gave up 3 hits and 2 runs over his first 16 IP…. Jacob’s frontside mechanics have changed drastically and the cause of it is next to impossible to believe….unless you know how the human body

Josh Jung hit .367 in July shortly after his recall from AAA…. He’s hitting .171 in August…. All you have to do is look at Josh’s front foot when it lands and you’ll know if you are going to get good Josh or bad Josh…. Good Josh uses the muscles of motor tract 1 on his

Jed Hoyer says that Kyle Tucker’s finger injury is the cause for the change in his mechanics……. That couldn’t be further from the truth…. Here’s Kyle hitting a double on June 13th vs Paul Skenes vs. Kyle rolling a ground ball into RF for a single on Saturday…. The fix is so

Paul Skenes pitches vs the Blue Jays tonight…. Skenes has been using the muscles of motor tract 5 on his right side in each one of his August starts…. He has given up 18 hits in 15 IP…. For comparison sakes he gave up 15 hits over 30IP in June…. When Skenes is at his

Fernando Tatis has hit 4 HR’s since May 28th…. He hit 4 HR’s in 7 postseason games last October…. Tatis is using different muscles to power his swing and it’s completely zapped him of his power…. It’s not that he has lost any force production per se….He just isn’t creating

Kyle Tucker is now 0-18 after another 0-3 today…. Kyle started his Cubbie tenure using the same mechanics he’s used for the last month and a half…. He’s one mindless adjustment from getting back to his typical swing mechanics but he doesn’t know what that adjustment is…. .

Mookie Betts is still using the muscles of motor tract 5 when he hits….He has 30 extra base hits so far in 2025…. He used the muscles of motor tract 1 in 2023….He had 80 extra base hits that season…. He uses different muscles from head to toe but nothing stands out more

Ketel Marte is currently hitting .293 and has 48 HR’s over his last 162 games…. Marte typically hits using the muscles of motor tract 1…. This means he uses his abductor digiti minimi of his left hand and his abductor pollicis of his right hand to launch his swing…. There

Kyle Tucker is down to .150 in August after another 0 for vs the Blue Jays today…. Kyle continues to use the muscles of motor tract 5 on his right side and the Cubs can’t seem to figure out why he hasn’t been hitting for the past month and a half…. Notice how he lands on his

Xavier Edwards is hitting .305 so far this season…. Max Kepler is hitting .204 so far this season…. Xavier uses the muscles of motor tract 1 on his left side and Max uses the muscles of motor tract 5…. This is the reason why Xavier gets to let the ball travel deeper into

Here’s a pretty cool video and description of how different the forearms work in motor tract 1 vs motor tract 5…. Ryan Fitzgerald was using the muscles of motor tract 1 on his right side and the muscles of motor tract 5 on his left side when he hit his first career HR earlier

Kyle Tucker is hitting .208 with 1 HR since July 1st…. Kyle averaged a HR every 12 at bats in Houston last year…. He’s averaging a HR every 23.5 at bats in Chicago this year…. When Kyle is at his best he uses the muscles of motor tract 1 on his right side…. When he’s at his

Paul Skenes gave up 4 ER over 4 IP vs the Brewers tonight…. Skenes has given up 8 Earned Runs while allowing 18 hits and walking 4 batters in 15 IP so far in August…. Skenes has used the muscles of motor tract 5 on the right side of his body all month long…. He’s used the

Francisco Lindor is hitting .204 since June 1st….He hit .339 in April. Lindor uses the muscles of motor tract 1 on his left side when he’s at his best and the muscles of motor tract 5 when he’s at his worst…. There are several noticeable differences in his mechanics but none

Bobby Witt Jr has had as up and down of a season as one could have…Here is his batting avg by month…. April .330 May .243 June .286 July .301 August .250…. He hit .332 in 2024…. Bobby sometimes uses the muscles of motor tract 1 on his right side and other times he uses the