At its core, Massey’s focus was on the forces applied in a swing, both with his body and his bat, and how his bat needs to move to contact the ball consistently. In conversations with the pilot, Massey related the physics of flying a plane in a crosswind to swinging a bat through the zone. Massey first wanted the science behind all of it, and then he leaned on his own experience to apply it to his swing and in the cage.
“As nerdy as it sounds, physics is part of it,” Massey said. “That’s really all I tried to get into. It’s why I got out of the baseball world. I don’t want feels. I want what’s real, and I’ll find the feel based on my experience.”