How can Kevin Youkilis possibly hit that way?

So I am watching the Red Sox/Yankees game tonight and every time I see the Red Sox play, I am perplexed at how Kevin Youkilis has ever gotten one hit at any level of baseball including t-ball.

Look at the way he holds and grips the bat. The batting stance is quite contorted but that in itself is not too much of a problem as there are other guys that are even more twisted up. No, it's the bizarre way he holds and grips the bat.

First, he's got the bat held at an almost 180 degree angle. Then, he deliberately puts his right hand several inches up the handle of the bat almost into the barrel doing what I have no idea. As the pitch is delivered, he slides his right hand down the handle meeting his left hand and then properly grips the bat and if he does this successfully, then he can consider swinging at the pitch if he likes it. What the heck is that?! How can he possibly hit that way?

That is just too much work if you ask me. He is multi-tasking WAY too much here! Hitting a major league baseball is hard enough without all that extra work.

Obviously it is working pretty well for him so you know don't change a thing but this is really a mind-bender.

(That pitch from Beckett to Matsui on his second home run in the 8th inning was pathetic)

How did he ever get through the minor leagues? Surely, more than once, he had a batting coach in the system take him aside and say "Son, we need to talk. I don't care how well you are hitting now, you will never ever make it past this level of ball holding the bat like that. Where in the world did you learn that? I want to see you real early tomorrow at the cages."

(He's up right now. I asked Computer Boy what he thought of it and he said it is messed up. Belaboring the point, I know but still...)