Now West made a support double, guaranteeing exactly three spades but not defining his hand strength.
Now South bid two no-trump to show his hand strength and type.
(East's redouble indicates exactly three-card heart support and any hand strength).
West's double is fit-showing, indicating three-card heart support but not specifying hand strength.
Evaluating Campbell before the draft, they considered his assets: toughness, hand strength, natural power and athleticism.
Gómez has been given the go-ahead to grip a bat and work on his hand strength, Minaya said.
But his hand strength had been limited by his second-round pass, and his spade length suggested that North would have club support.
He often inserted numbers in the checklist — say, a measure of hand strength — after the person left, rather than as he performed the tests.
"You'd lose 50percentt of your hand strength, easily," Laurie Rogers, a certified hand therapist at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, said.
Hand size doesn't take into account hand strength or pocket awareness or release or the offensive line a quarterback plays behind, all things that undoubtedly have more to do with fumbling than the distance between a guys's pinkie and thumb.
Scouts and executives from other teams are sure Soriano is going to be a big-time offensive player because of his unusual hand strength and bat speed, and his plate coverage.
