Seeing as how most homerun hitters are dead pull hitters, even if he's starts off sqared away , he's still about 35 degrees closed to his target line to start.
Barry does have amazing lag. Seeing this is very humbling and explains why I could never hit a softball very far in the corporate league. After all these years of golf, I could never imagine trying to be so open at impact. As a result, poor rotation. a quitting stroke to be sure.