Was there ever a whackier stance than this?

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1. Kevin Youkilis https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1371509834756063236/pu/img/Ci19FEy6dhUk7dDl.jpg

2. Julio Franco would like a word

3. Julio Franco

4. Micky Tettleton

5. Mickey Tettleton had some weird shit going on.

6. I’m so glad these kind of stances are going away. It’s like they were trying to piss us off or something

7. Mickey Tettleton. He looked like my 3 yr old when holding a heavy bat.

8. Jose oquendo

9. Luke Voit’s 2021 stance looked like a Keith Haring painting

10. Chuck knablock

11. Oscar Gamble, who looked like he was having cramps.

12. Julio Franco comes to mind, as does Jeff Bagwell when you look at it from the LH batter box view.

13. Bagwell

14. [deleted]

15. Glenallen Hill and BJ Surhoff

16. Rickey Henderson

17. Brian Downing.

18. Bobby Tolan

19. Tony Batista. Weird, but if you get the timing right, oh baby.

20. mickey tettleton

21. Moises Alou always had a goofy one. Even the way he wore his helmet was goofy.

22. Phil Plantier always looked like he was hovering over a toilet

23. Wasn’t at this level but gotta mention Mark Teixeira who looked like he had just had ice water poured down his back in the batter’s box

24. yes.

25. Rod Carew

26. Mickey Tettleton’s stance was quite strange.

27. Gary! Gary! Gary! Gary! Sheffield

28. We need that batting stance guy to weigh in on craziest. He knows everyone.

29. Pissmissle 5000 stance

30. Dwight Evans

31. Craig was just leveraging gravity to his advantage

32. Hey that’s my cousin!

33. I think this is a technique to keep the front shoulder closed. Brendan Ryan used to lick his front shoulder before every pitch. My guess is a previous coach suggested the odd behavior because you have to pull your shoulder back to do it.

34. Rickey Henderson, Rod Carew, Pete Rose, Carl Crawford, Aaron Rowand, Coco Crisp, Albert Pujols

35. I’m sure cal Ripken at one time or another had a weird stance. I’ve never seen someone switch a stance more then him

36. Other than “trickle down economics works”?

    No, I can’t think of one.

37. As a kid watching baseball, mimicking different guys batting stances while playing wiffle ball was just the best… I always liked Juan Gonzalez,Gary Shedfield, and Ken Griffey, Jr

38. No idea why my brain remembers this is Craig Counsell. I don’t remember anything else about Craig Counsell!

39. It wasn’t just the stance. It was the bouncing haha

40. Game 7 World Series hero. Put some respect on his name.

41. Rod Carew

42. Julio Franco

43. I thought immediately of Julio Franco, and Mickey Tettleton, two of the greatest Rangers ever if ranked by batting stance.

44. I once heard Counsell’s stance described as “a chimney sweep who missed a spot”

45. If Don Flamenco played baseball

46. Was there ever a better manager than him? No 😎

47. Craig Counsel