The biggest reason the book will be beneficial to more than players is the impact it will have on the game. The title has a double meaning. Though it is the name and trademark for the new swing, it is also a Pivotal Swing in the overall game of baseball. Players and coaches will learn how the method was developed and all the benefits it provides. All the family members of players and coaches will want to find out about the new method and its impact on the game. Parents and family members may read the book before their younger players and realize the need to have the player read it too.

As the first known application of Six Sigma to player performance methods in professional baseball or any other sport, it offers a unique opportunity for hundreds of thousands of people that have been trained in Six Sigma methods to see the tools they have learned at work on a process that most wouldn’t consider. It will reinforce their training that the methods work on any process and that the less complex and practical tools are very powerful in these kinds of applications. There are a lot of people that have both training and application of process improvement (like Six Sigma) as well as an interest in baseball.

Although the improvements were based upon analysis of the pros (and some college players), they provide tremendous improvement for younger players. The amount of improvement for young players is amplified. By reducing a wide range of problems in their methods, they get and even larger amount of improvement. You can imagine, since we found core level improvements for the pros, how much more they are going to help the younger players. Our testing showed over a 30% improvement for players with 8-10 years of experience, it could easily be 60% or 80% improvement for younger players.

We invite you to step up to the plate, dig into your comfortable batting stance and then enjoy reading this provocative book.

Roger Hart, author