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Post by Hart's Middle Finger on Feb 23, 2019 7:40:43 GMT -5
I would as well but that's something I wish he already knew and had been working on for years. Not to be smart about it but it's pretty common knowledge that batters and pitchers for that matter derive a lot of power from their lower body. I guess his success as is might have made it so there didn't need to be a concentrated effort on working on it more.
Good for him for getting the advice. I am all for anything that doesn't fundementally monkey with his swing itself. I don't want another Haywood.
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Post by TheCoronaManCometh on Feb 23, 2019 10:31:45 GMT -5
I would as well but that's something I wish he already knew and had been working on for years. Not to be smart about it but it's pretty common knowledge that batters and pitchers for that matter derive a lot of power from their lower body. I guess his success as is might have made it so there didn't need to be a concentrated effort on working on it more. Good for him for getting the advice. I am all for anything that doesn't fundementally monkey with his swing itself. I don't want another Haywood. Baseball swings are funny. I imagine if what AP says is true, he’s spotted something Braves coaches haven’t, or were unwilling to mention because what Riley has been doing has been working. There could be a trial and error stage with working towards using your legs more, and for all we know the Braves didn’t want to slow down his development to have him work on it. Also, for all we know, Braves coaches could have been telling him that, but he thought he already was and was resistant to change, until someone like AP pointed it out. There are an infinite number of reasons why he wasn’t, or not using them as much as AP thinks he should be. I don’t really think the fact that he hasn’t as much as AP recommends should cause us to think that Riley has been wasting time.
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Post by Drkirby on Feb 23, 2019 11:54:00 GMT -5
I would as well but that's something I wish he already knew and had been working on for years. Not to be smart about it but it's pretty common knowledge that batters and pitchers for that matter derive a lot of power from their lower body. I guess his success as is might have made it so there didn't need to be a concentrated effort on working on it more. Good for him for getting the advice. I am all for anything that doesn't fundementally monkey with his swing itself. I don't want another Haywood. Baseball swings are funny. I imagine if what AP says is true, he’s spotted something Braves coaches haven’t, or were unwilling to mention because what Riley has been doing has been working. There could be a trial and error stage with working towards using your legs more, and for all we know the Braves didn’t want to slow down his development to have him work on it. Also, for all we know, Braves coaches could have been telling him that, but he thought he already was and was resistant to change, until someone like AP pointed it out. There are an infinite number of reasons why he wasn’t, or not using them as much as AP thinks he should be. I don’t really think the fact that he hasn’t as much as AP recommends should cause us to think that Riley has been wasting time. Hitting is mostly trial and error to most guys; what works for some doesn’t for others... like Sheff, his approach wouldn’t work for anyone but him. Pujols suggestion may help Riley it may not. I find it hard to believe Pujols would see anything CJ10 hasn’t already seen or mentioned. But who knows.
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Post by TheCoronaManCometh on Feb 23, 2019 13:20:02 GMT -5
Baseball swings are funny. I imagine if what AP says is true, he’s spotted something Braves coaches haven’t, or were unwilling to mention because what Riley has been doing has been working. There could be a trial and error stage with working towards using your legs more, and for all we know the Braves didn’t want to slow down his development to have him work on it. Also, for all we know, Braves coaches could have been telling him that, but he thought he already was and was resistant to change, until someone like AP pointed it out. There are an infinite number of reasons why he wasn’t, or not using them as much as AP thinks he should be. I don’t really think the fact that he hasn’t as much as AP recommends should cause us to think that Riley has been wasting time. Hitting is mostly trial and error to most guys; what works for some doesn’t for others... like Sheff, his approach wouldn’t work for anyone but him. Pujols suggestion may help Riley it may not. I find it hard to believe Pujols would see anything CJ10 hasn’t already seen or mentioned. But who knows. I imagine AP’s and Chippers hitting philosophies are different. Maybe Chipper knows what AP knows, but does he value it enough to teach it, or does he even know as much about it to feel comfortable passing it off as advice?
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Post by Fumbduckery on Feb 23, 2019 13:41:20 GMT -5
One thing Chipper and AP both did well was keeping their hands back. Even when they got fooled on pitches they kept their hands back, and both were strong enough to still hit lasers and even a HR here and there on balls they were fooled on for a second.
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Post by Drkirby on Feb 23, 2019 13:54:38 GMT -5
One thing Chipper and AP both did well was keeping their hands back. Even when they got fooled on pitches they kept their hands back, and both were strong enough to still hit lasers and even a HR here and there on balls they were fooled on for a second. What makes great hitters great is being able to predict what the pitcher is trying to do. Unless you’re Vlad Sr. And you don’t care what it is or where it’s thrown.
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Post by Fumbduckery on Feb 23, 2019 14:08:13 GMT -5
One thing Chipper and AP both did well was keeping their hands back. Even when they got fooled on pitches they kept their hands back, and both were strong enough to still hit lasers and even a HR here and there on balls they were fooled on for a second. What makes great hitters great is being able to predict what the pitcher is trying to do. Unless you’re Vlad Sr. And you don’t care what it is or where it’s thrown. Sheffield was great at that, he was almost never fooled by a pitch. He was as good as I've seen at understanding what a pitcher was trying to do during an entire AB and how to pick his pitches to swing at. The opposite of Ozzie. I really hope Ozzie can improve on this.
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Post by TheCoronaManCometh on Feb 23, 2019 16:22:39 GMT -5
One thing Chipper and AP both did well was keeping their hands back. Even when they got fooled on pitches they kept their hands back, and both were strong enough to still hit lasers and even a HR here and there on balls they were fooled on for a second. What makes great hitters great is being able to predict what the pitcher is trying to do. Unless you’re Vlad Sr. And you don’t care what it is or where it’s thrown. It was either Chipper who said it, or it was someone who was describing Chipper who said it. Good players adjust game to game, great players adjust at-bat to at-bat, the truly great adjust pitch to pitch. Chipper was a player who adjusted pitch to pitch.
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