Learn to control the barrel. There’s a reason great hitters train like this. It’s not because they want to hit back side grounders in a game. It’s because staying inside and through the ball are old terms that still ring true today’s game.

How often do you see a bad front leg when the back leg is really good?

Watch rear knee work. Keeps the back hip in internal rotation into launch. Allows pelvis to fly through with the hands. Fun game to watch. Fireworks all over.

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It’s official! ✍️ Sophomore pitcher Adrian Orozco is your @sunconference baseball Pitcher of the Week! ⚾️ #gomightybanyans

Few examples of 2 strike takes that started at the bottom of the zone & ended up down & out of the zone. These takes led to slug in those ABs. His willingness and comfortability of taking a strike at the bottom allows for all these positives. A good strikeout is a real thing

It limits his chase. 17% below the zone where big league average is over 30%. Less chase, tends to lead to less swing and miss or very soft contact. Strike to ball pitches are the easiest to chase. Easier to take when you're willing to take the strike there.

He's better off hoping the umpire calls it a ball even if it's in the zone. Allowing the freedom of a good strikeout actually does a few things. Forces the pitcher to throw more pitches and with more pitches, comes more misses into his zone. More pitches where he's actually GREAT

Juan Soto struck out looking a decent amount of times at the bottom of the zone last year. His strength isn't the bottom of the zone and below, he hit .175 and his xslug was only .243 in this location. In zone above that, he hit .332 with xslug of .704, so why swing?

🧵 What's a good strike out? Is there such a thing? I believe so. When we learn what a good strikeout is, we will find more barrels, chase less and with that potentially strike out less.

These are both adjustments being early. Just because we know what’s coming as a catcher doesn’t mean we will be perfectly on time everytime. Good timing on glove load, good forward glove path and good set up allowing body freedom.

Some receiving work with the Varsity and JV catchers at New College. Fastball skips with receiving value and some runner calls. Fastball at the bottom of the zone.

🗣️ MESSAGE! I’ll take it one step further. If all you talk or think about is mechanics, some players get consumed by it even when in the game. Must train both hitting and swinging. Two major different things.

Get into your legs or using legs more are just tough cues for younger hitters. This very poor move makes them feel weighted and into their back legs, it feels good! The issue is the body hates it for everything that happens after that in hitting. Find a new way!

Both of these issues create constant rotation around the front leg rather than around the back hip. Really difficult to adjust to different timing with any sort of connection and authority and a very consistent bat path in and out of the zone to the pullside.

The body will run. Either the hamstring will lengthen during the forward move, basically extending back leg or it will sit n spin. This causes the ability to control any forward move to greatly diminish(hello crash hitters) or flies the pelvis open when back(hello poor direction)

The epidemic of “Get into your legs”: This issue is littered through youth baseball and I’m including the minor leagues. Great hitters don’t accept weight into their rear legs. 🧵

Amongst this great and hilarious interview @DeionSanders brought up a very powerful point about coaching that a lot of people miss and @ShannonSharpe response seemed like he totally understood

Entire game w/ 2 strikes or guys on FSUs catcher goes to this ridiculous stance. Has made close pitches look not great all night from it and now misses a block that he could block from a knee down without even budging. When will it end?

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