he does hit against the front side a lot but he is strong enough to do that. most of big league hitters do hip slide. however we talk about arod being the best player we have seen and will see but over the years his strikeouts are way up and his average is way down. in my opinion it is because he does to much hip sliding. watch pujols he doesnt slide at all this is why he is probably the best player we will ever see and nobody even talks about it. is it because he doesnt make 220 million. i see a lot of things wrong with arods swing and dont think we should be teaching our kids this today. we should build around pujols swing, a strong base and staying behind the ball not lurching at it like arod seems to do.