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I remember toying with his stance/grip (didn't we all?!) and finding the exact same effect I described above. But like I said I couldn't get the max benefit with a standard knob for whatever reason. I've only got slightly-larger-than-average hands so I don't think it's that.
Anyway yeah looked at Michael Young (who during his prime was a mini-Edgar approach-wise with a nice level inside-out swing) and he also hung his pinky down below the knob.
Derek Jeter oddly enough had one of those donut-looking things on the knob of his bat so that he *couldn't* hang his pinky down - at least that's what I saw when scanning 100ish Google images of his batting stances. I remember Sammy Sosa having an even more exaggerated version than the one Jeter used but Jeter was the only 'inside-out' specialist I could think of off the top of my head that *didn't* hang his pinky below the knob.