09/10/2011 - Accelerated Hitting Weekend (Pre-High School) James is a strong, athletic young man with a lot of positives in his swing. He has an athletic set up and stance and looks strong in the box. He has a short compact stroke and shows the ability to consistently reach a strong contact point. His lower half works well, hips clear all the way through and his front side locks out or firms up as he reaches contact. He shows a consistent swing path that matches the plane of the pitch and makes consistent, hard contact. The main area that James needs to improve in is his load. We would like to see him continue to work on coiling or loading into his back hip and loading his rear scap like we worked on at camp. Getting a little bit of load will help him to generate more strength, power and bat speed as well has give him a timing mechanism to get him started. Overall he has a ton of positives in swing and if he can make the adjustment listed above he will be very good in the near future.