I have spent considerable time studying and teaching the baseball swing using principles learned from TGM. Homer states in the book that the information contained may be usefully applied to other endeavors. Baseball is way behind golf in that respect.
IMHO there are baseball players that hit (Arod, Pujols, Tjeda) and many that swing (Griffey, Ramirez, Bonds). Experiment with both. As Homer suggested if strong hit -- if quick swing.
Here is a great picture of of the flying wedges
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...arge/hr_61.jpg