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A drill that I have found to be very helpful for players trying to create good direction and staying in the zone longer has been this right here!
Have them start by pointing their bat directly to the wall behind them and get their front elbow up.
🔑👇🏼
1. The thought here is
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Jackson Holliday going the other way 🔥
Catching it a little deeper is always a good thing to me 👇🏼
1. Tracking and recognition. I would rather a player try to see it longer and make a good decision than a bad one.
2. Better chance at good things to happen. When you get out
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Alex Bregman cage work 🔥
Watch a professional player hit in the cage!
The are 👇🏼👇🏼
1. Deliberate on every swing/everything has a purpose
2. They take their time and think about what they’re trying to accomplish/feel
3. Most of the time they are staying up the middle and the
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Bo Bichette talking about inside pitches 🔥
“I think it’s really important being able to hit the inside pitch without cheating for it”
If you cheat inside all the time you will be exposed to so much Off-speed.
Why does he do the Tight Inside Tee Drill 👇🏼👇🏼
1. Working on
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Great video of Jackson Holliday (
@J_Holliday7
) in one of his off-season training videos. Hitting lefty on lefty sliders. It’s important to train more than just feel good fastballs down the middle.
Here are 3 great things he is doing to get better. 👇🏼👇🏼
1. Shifted machine over
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Andrew McCutchen Self Talk after a homerun🔥
It’s so important to have confidence in this game!
Tell yourself you are the best and BELIEVE it! 🔑
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Bryce Harper 2012 vs. 2023 🔥
What stands out to you the most?
I love watching hitters change to find success throughout the years. 🔑
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Short Box BP 🔥
Why it’s important👇🏼👇🏼
1. Works your approach
2. Improves swing decisions
3. Closes thing to game like as possible
It’s a great way to compete and challenge yourself in the cage.
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Low machine opposite angle foam balls 🔥
Why?👇🏼
1. We don’t work the other way just because. We do that because it’s the best part of the field to work when trying to create good MOVES and DIRECTION
2. Trying to see the ball a little deeper. Great for recognition and stoping
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Tim Hyers talks about creating walks 🔥
It’s important to walk as a hitter, but you have to do it the right way.
Don’t try to walk more because you just take pitches and get deep into counts, hoping to walk.
“Aggressive to walk”
Know what the pitcher is trying to do, but
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I had one of the younger guys come in today. His tendency’s are to step out and pull off the baseball.
This is how we are fixing that problem 👇🏼👇🏼
1. I put a huge object behind his front foot. Eliminates the bad move for him.
2. I put a screen up the middle to give him a
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J.D. Martinez writing notes after one of his at bats! 🖊️🔥
Writing is one of the best things you can do as a hitter here’s why 👇🏼
1. Helps you remember how the pitcher attacked you.
2. Allows you to reset your mind. Put it on paper then move on.
3. Helps you think about why
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Cody Bellinger 2022 vs 2023
Slight difference? Yes
Big difference? No
Stats
2022 .210/.265/.389 (38/150 BB/K)
2023 .307/.356/.525 (40/87 BB/K)
Bellinger in 2023 had the lowest average Exit Velocity (87.9) and Hard hit % (31.4%) of his career, but had one of his best years.
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3 plate drill 🔥
All we are trying to do here is change timing and challenge ourselves.
When we are in games we don’t ever see the same pitch at the same speed over and over again.
It’s important to train adjustability and timing!
Train for game time! 🔑
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A drill that I have used to help some hitters is this right here 🔥
What we are trying to do 👇🏼👇🏼
1. Create good direction
2. Trying to stay on the ball
3. Trying to stay through it
Can help hitters who spin or pull off the ball with their front side
I want them to feel
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Mookie Betts Take vs. Homerun 💣
Being Disciplined and having an Approach is key!
Betts is a prime example 👇🏼👇🏼
He led MLB last season by having the Lowest Chase Rate at 16.6% allowing him to produce the highest walk rate of his career at 13.9%.
Better Takes give you Better
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2 Machines Right handed Sliders vs Fastballs ‼️ (1st pitch is Slider, 2nd pitch is Fastball)
The purposes of this? 👇🏼👇🏼
1. We set the machine that is set for sliders a little to the left to simulate sliders that start inside/at the hitter and fall into the zone. We want to
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Half bat stop at extension 🔥
Good direction is a MUST!
What we are trying to do👇🏼
1. Be quick and efficient with our moves
2. Hold extension to help him feel through the baseball
3. Eliminate spinning or pulling off the baseball
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“You always have to prove yourself, no matter how talented you are”
At every level you have to outwork the people around you.
At some point everyone around you is talented.
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As the season approaches everyone has goals.
Goals are great, but don’t have result driven goals. Such as Batting Average, Homeruns, Stolen Bases etc.
Make goals that you can control such as 👇🏼👇🏼
- Preparing the right way
- Playing hard
- Daily routine
- Having an approach
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Zach Neto Homerun on 3-1 Fastball 🔥
He has earned the right to sell out on this pitch and play a little bit more out front!
Hitters EARN your counts 👇🏼👇🏼
Better TAKES give you better pitches to hit! 🔑
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You’re only as good as your swing decisions!
Mixed BP, Double hacks, and Short Box are great ways to challenge yourself and your decisions at the plate.
Have a competitive practice environment to find success in game. 🔑
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“Don’t take too much out of one bad swing and don’t take too much out of one bad game.”
Sometimes we think because we didn’t find success in a particular moment, day, or even week we have to change something big.
Most the time that’s not the case. 👇🏼
- Slow down
- Stay with
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Juan Soto 2K approach vs 1-1 Hack 🔥
Hitters it’s okay to simplify when you get to 2 strikes, don’t see a pitcher very well, or you feel like your timing is off.
Soto has less of a leg lift and is choked up for more barrel control. This gives him a better chance of being on
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Lack of confidence can hide talent! 👇🏼
Confidence is built over time through hard work, preparation, and doing the right things.
Put in enough work to build it and then carry it with you! 🔑
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“Do not be discouraged by the struggle”
In this game you will fail and make mistakes. You can guarantee that.
Don’t get discouraged when that happens.
When you are in the struggle you find out who you really are and what kind of player you are.
Learn from it, understand
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Bad movements create bad timing and bad timing creates bad movements.
Learn to move efficiently on time.
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Mixed Slider BP 🔥
Throwing this hitter sliders only and mixing between Balls in dirt, Boarderline pitches, and Hangers.
The purpose of this is 👇🏼
1. Help lower chase rate on sliders
2. Work approach and swing decisions
We want the hitter to know and recognize where he hits
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David Ortiz talks about getting out of your comfort zone 🔥
You have to have a purpose in the cage. All the drills you do should be getting you ready for something. It may be uncomfortable, boring, hard, but you have to do things that make you a better hitter. 🔑
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Half bat with close machine high and away 🔥
We are trying to 👇🏼👇🏼
1. Clean up and create good direction
2. Challenging the hitter to try and beat the ball on “top” and stay through the baseball.
3. Make efficient moves
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Mindfulness 🔥
A lot of great players meditate!
It helps 👇🏼 👇🏼
1. Visualization, picture success before it happens.
2. Resetting your thoughts, control what you think. Talk to your self!
3. Breathing, helps your body relax and translates to the game. You should be
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One of the college guys came in today. His biggest weakness this fall was right-handed off-speed down and away.
He told me he “needed to have better body position to hit those pitches.”
I set up 2 machines: 1 fastball and 1 slider (low and away because it will throw a hanging
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Personally the day I learned the results don’t define you.
- Work hard
- Play hard
- Have fun
- Be focused
- Love it
- Don’t cheat yourself
- Make the people around you better
But don’t let it define who you are!
At the end of the all you can do is do your best and give
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Trout on how many swings he takes before games.
“Some days you’re battling trying to find it. Trying to keep that same swing”
• Know what you need. Have a routine and do it daily. Don’t change your swing because of a bad day.
• You won’t always feel good. Just compete.
@MLB
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Corbin Carroll Homerun vs Slider down and in 🔥
“Path is king” 🔑
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Learn to be uncomfortable.
Right now is the perfect time, while it’s the off-season.
It may not feel good today, a couple days, or a couple weeks, but if you don’t cheat the process, it will be worth it in the spring! 🔒
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Corbin Carroll single the other way🔥
Barrel is in the zone for a long time ‼️
• He doesn’t have to be right on time for success
• Can catch off-speed out front and pull it for a hit
• Can get beat and still have a chance at a hit or to foul something off with 2 strikes
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Feel vs Real
@MikeTrout
One of the purposes of the On Deck Circle is to FEEL how you want to move at the plate 🔑
It doesn’t have to look like your game swing
Know what you’re trying to feel and why 🧠
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If you are not having conversations during your hitting sessions with your coach to talk about… 👇🏼👇🏼
1. What your trying to do and why
2. Approach
3. How you feel
4. What your thoughts are
You are missing key parts of what can make you a GREAT hitter. Relationships and
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Great way to get better and have a good time.
Challenging and Fun!
Don’t forget baseball is still fun no matter what level you’re at.
Incorporate challenging competitions in your practice environment! 🔥🔑
Jackson Holliday vs 100mph, 3000 RPM Fastballs 🔥
• Scooted up, imagine reaction time 👀
@J_Holliday7
@HollidayHacks
@OsuVicRomero
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You have to do training that transfers!
Why keep training the same way, If you don’t see results? You don’t.
For instance, If you keep chasing sliders out of the zone, go set up a machine that throws sliders boarder line and take until you get a hanging slider. It helps with
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Hitters: Let's make sure you're DRIVING the ball
Not trying to lift the ball
The consistent ball flight will tell the story..
The feel or thought to achieve is different for everyone, but if you miss allow it to be competitive still..
- One hop linedrive ground balls are OKAY
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“Hard work doesn’t guarantee you success, it guarantees you honesty.”
You either work hard and know how far you can make it, or you don’t and live with never knowing.
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Texas Rangers Hitting Coach Tim Hyers said this about his hitter 60 games into last season👇🏼👇🏼
“We’re gonna prepare, we’re gonna be ready to go and compete, and hope the results add up.”
All you can do is control what you can control. That’s why he said “hope the results add
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@bryceharper3
Leg Kick v.s. No Stride🔥
• Keep good rhythm when you “shorten up”. You don’t want to feel stuck.
• Know when to use what. If you aren’t seeing it well that day, against a specific pitcher, or timing is off “shortening up” is great to use! 🔑
#hitting
#mlb
@MLB
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"Success is connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
• Work Hard
• Make mistakes
• Fail
• Learn
• Be confident
• Compete
= Success
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@TJHannam10
The benefits of foam balls…. Need to get a half bat though and hit foam balls with it 👀
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Merry Christmas! 🎄 Even though baseball is a big part of our lives, don’t forget we have a bigger purpose in our lives than just playing this game!
Happy birthday Jesus ✝️
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“Hard work doesn’t guarantee success; it guarantees honesty.” ‼️
Do you work hard, do things right, and aim to see how far you can make it, or are you okay with never knowing your true potential? 💭
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One of the best things to remember as a baseball player is…. Be an ATHLETE!
The more athletic you are the further you’ll go in this game.
“You first have to get to know the player and what they like to do, what’s gonna trigger something in their brain…for Dansby it was basketball”
Listen to Braves Hitting Coach Bobby Magallanes talk about getting to know your players and one of the drills he came up in the moment
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Perfect example of not always trying to be impressive in the cage. Work on your craft. You should be failing in the cage to become more successful in games. 💭🔑
@MLB
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Corey Seager 🔥
HR vs 0-0 Slider
HR vs 1-1 Fastball
- Contact is a little deeper on the FB,
- Rides the front side and stays on the SL really well
- Probably looking for off-speed pitch in SL at bat. Woo threw the least amount of FB (%) all year long in this game.
#hitting
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“Finding a focus for each hitter” 🔑
This is so important. All Hitters think in different ways!
Really like using After Contact Cues recently!
Finding a focus for each hitter to make sure we are smooth + in control.
What this hitter did after contact wasn’t even what the cue was.. but loved the direction and body staying on🔥
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@TJHannam10
100%! I know Marcus Semien has talked a lot about it.
This drill with the half bat would be very beneficial for a lot of hitter! 🔥🔑
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“The more disciplined of a hitter you are, the better of a hitter you will be”
It’s not always about the swing, sometimes it’s your APPROACH or MINDSET! 🔑
Some times you have to take that borderline fastball for a strike to try and get a better pitch you can drive.
Maybe
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got during my career was from a current MiLB
@SFGiants
Hitting Coach.
He said “Sometimes to get better at hitting, you have to set the bat down”
• Talk about things
• Learn about yourself and what you’re trying to do
• Work on
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"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
Make sure you love what you are doing or trying to do. Success does not just happen because you woke up one day.
It’s a bunch
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First pitch is a slider, second pitch is fastball.
I love how he says “no” when taking the slider.
To me it shows that he is competing confidently! 🔑
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What is one of your favorite drills to do as a player/coach and why?👇🏼👇🏼
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Fastball away vs LHP Changeups 🔥
Great training session today. For this particular hitter his weaknesses are 👇🏼
1. Fastballs away
2. Too much swing and miss on Off-speed from left handed pitchers
So what did we do?
• Foam balls for movement and timing purposes
• Fungo
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@Doubledee_4
The great thing is both of these swings produced homeruns! What I am suggesting is that guys change to find success over time. However, both can be successful in that moment. Constantly adapting to get better. I am not suggesting one is a bad swing. Out of curiosity what makes
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One of my buddies ( Currently in AA w/
@Angles
) and I were talking during BP one day.
He said “If you think you’re twice as good, you’ll play twice as good”
He and I both lived it. We played bad b/c we had no confidence. We played well b/c of confidence.
Confidence is key! 🔑
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Michael Brantley on staying consistent 🔥
Big leaguers have routines. Know what YOU need to be ready every day. Everyone’s different.
Don’t just take a couple swings in the cage before games and think you’re gonna be successful.
“It helps me find where I need to be everyday”🔑
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One of The best videos you will ever see 👇🏼👇🏼
“If you’re result driven… you won’t perform in this game”
Control what you can control
• Process
• Approach
• Playing hard
• Mindset 🧠
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Stud 🔥 Keep swinging it!
Got a great drill from
@TM_Hitting
I enjoy new drills and had another great cage session with my dad.
@FocusPerformVA
@USABaseball
@USABDevelops
@MLB
@WakeBaseball
@Ry_McMahon
@CaseyDill22
@smellbaseball
@PG_Scouting
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Another way of doing it.
With the low machine it helps you train against guys with “ride” and pitch well at the top of the zone.
This hitter knows how he should/wants to be moving
@MotorPreference
We focus on his weaknesses and trying to get as close to game like training
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Kevin Kiermaier talking Approach during a hot stretch 🔥
• Hitters it’s important to remember things such as being simple or trying to see the ball better can be all it takes to get going.
• Also, know your role in the line up. Know what kind of player you are and what
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“Enjoy the journey, not the destination.”
Everyone is chasing a destination in this game. Be where your feet are. Enjoy every little thing.
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I love how he mentions “Making a second read”
If you are looking for a fastball and someone hangs a breaking ball. You have to do damage with it. It’s a mistake pitch.
Great hitters don’t miss mistakes!
They also don’t give up on pitches. They see it the whole way.
More knowledge from this great Austin Riley video.
Here, Austin is talking about how he goes about handling off-speed and breaking balls.
He focuses on being in a good 50/50 position in order to be adjustable after his “2nd read”.
This video is a must watch for all young
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Learn to deal with failure. I know it sounds stupid, but be okay with it.
The faster you get over your failure, the better you will be.
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I had a high school kid tell me: “I feel so good in practice, but terrible when I get into games”
My response. “You need to have a better/more competitive training environment.”
If you have a mediocre practice environment. Then expect mediocre results in game.
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The kid can rake! 🔥 Absolute 💣
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Be the high achiever and bring people with you! 🔥
• Today is a great day to be great!
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@nicktprather
More than likely working on staying through the baseball and having good direction!
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I’ve been around the game a little bit. If I were to have an opinion here. The thing that helped him the most was a change of scenery, better approach at the plate, and his mentality. It built confidence. Which is 🔑 to be successful. Just my opinion.
#Hitting
#mlb
#mentality
Cody Bellinger - '19 vs '21 vs '23
Subtle differences. Can you spot them?
Side note: the TV K zones shouldn't be trusted. They're a guide. Nothing more.
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Great opportunity! 👇🏼
Monday night (Jan 15) I’m hosting a Zoom call 🔥
• WHO: Young coaches looking for guidance + advice on how to be their best
• WHY: This is something I’m very passionate about! I wish I had help when I was working my way up (I still am)
RT or reply + I’ll message the link 🤝
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@TJHannam10
Don’t try to be impressive in the cage. Challenge yourself, fail, work on breaking balls, train the eyes. Do everything possible to get yourself ready to succeed in games. Everyone can hit BP, not everyone can hit when it matters.
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Just like this
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I’ve played against 1st rounders, 2nd rounders, 10th rounders, 20th rounders, Division 1, 2 & 3 and JUCO guys👇🏼👇🏼
A big difference between Good and Elite Hitters at the plate is their DISCIPLINE
Elite hitters rarely swing at balls and have a plan every time they step up there‼️
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Ohtani & Betts 🔥
Creating stretch and separation. Allowing space to let hands and upper body work freely. Creating tension like a bow and arrow. 🏹🔑
Clam then Explosive 🧨
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