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YOU vs. the inside half of the ball.
The Brewers are the ultimate OUTLIER
When I was diving in on the game and pitching matchup yesterday I found this. This is a statistic of the average degree of the barrel of the bat at contact point for each team.
Everything to the left is pull side contact point. Everything e field contact point.
29 of the 30 teams are to the pull side.
There’s just one to the opposite field. The Milwaukee Brewers.
This is wild to me. And speaks volumes to their team approach. It means the ball is traveling deeper which has a ripple effect on everything else you’re trying to do as a hitter.
It allows you to recognize off speed for a split second longer. Spit on pitches down and away. Keep pitches fair that you’re normally pulling foul. Foul line to foul line approach.
The team with the best record in all of baseball is the ONLY team doing something. And they’re not even particularly close to any other teams. That’s pretty eye opening.
Also shoutout Twins. Turn and burn, baby.
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Ben Buechner retweeted
Footwork in baseball is king especially in the infield …. Work on it kids
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Thank you @JermaineCurtis
Mind is #1 for competing.
Anyone standing on their feet, running on & off the field for 6 hours straight (3 pregame, 3 during game) understands importance of mental endurance.
Body says rest, mind says perform.
To have endurance, you have to ENDURE!
Mind is #1 for competing.
Anyone standing on their feet, running on & off the field for 6 hours straight (3 pregame, 3 during game) understands importance of mental endurance.
Body says rest, mind says perform.
To have endurance, you have to ENDURE!
@RyanBMillardyou. If I was designing training today, I’d definitely make it more sport specific.
But here’s the difference for me…
If you’re not naturally the fastest guy, telling yourself “be #1” in a 20-yard sprint doesn’t necessarily make you #1 😂 You can compete, but speed is speed.
And most players aren’t doing enough sprints in practice to reach that point where everyone is truly exhausted.
Those long runs were different.
Eventually everybody was tired. Everybody wanted to stop.
That’s when the competition changed for me.
It wasn’t about who was naturally the fastest anymore. It became about how far I was willing to push myself when my body was telling me to slow down.
Was running poles the best physical training for baseball? Probably not.
But learning how to push myself when I was exhausted and uncomfortable?
That mentality absolutely carried over into how I competed.
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2 fundamental roots of hitting mechanics:
-Efficiency to ball line.
-Length on ball line.
That is it. Every mechanical drill, tweak, and cue can be traced back to trying to improving one and/or both.
Combine with:
-Eye sight.
-Mentality.
…you have a chance to be a hitter.
-Efficiency to ball line.
-Length on ball line.
That is it. Every mechanical drill, tweak, and cue can be traced back to trying to improving one and/or both.
Combine with:
-Eye sight.
-Mentality.
…you have a chance to be a hitter.
@Frank_Castle6 Think about hitting like catching a ball. You’d never use timing to explain catching a ball. We’ve been hitting baseballs since we were in elementary school. We typically aren’t late, just not efficient to the pitched ball.
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Biggest detriment to success is success.
Winning is a bigger threat than losing.
The most dangerous seasons aren’t after failure. They’re after massive success.
Failure is honest. As uncomfortable as failure can be, it's hard to ignore for long. It demands attention.
But success does something different to people's minds.
Failure is painful but truthful. It shows you what you need to see but don’t want to acknowledge.
Success is seductive but manipulative. Winning hides what you need to see and address behind a false promise of continued success.
Winning and success convince you that certain laws of the universe don't apply to you. It feels like evidence of your superiority or confirmation your success will continue on momentum alone.
That's where the trouble starts.
Watch what happens to people after major success. Motivation changes.
Ego moves in quietly.
Caution and focus fade.
Decisions that would have seemed undisciplined before suddenly feel earned.
Knowing yourself means knowing this pattern exists in you. It may not be active now but it can activate at any moment.
The same self-awareness and discipline that drives you after failure has to work twice as hard after success.
Because failure reminds you of your limits while success tries to convince you that you're invincible.
You're not invincible.
You're capable, but you're not invincible.
Keep your self-awareness and discipline strong after failure.
Keep it even stronger after success.
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@BrianKight have always enjoyed you and your dad’s theories and content/podcast. 🙏
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Looking forward to seeing what this all-star staff can do!!
2 special people to me and my family!
Nobody better!!!
@Coach_JimBray @robynleightonn
2 special people to me and my family!
Nobody better!!!
@Coach_JimBray @robynleightonn
Filed to @D1Softball: Utah State is hiring Jim Bray and Robyn Leighton as assistant coaches on Kristen Zaleski’s inaugural staff.
d1softball.com/bray-leighton-…
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Ben Buechner retweeted
Sources: New @OmahaBSB head coach Rob Fournier is hiring Jeff Calhoon as one of his assistants, I'm told. Calhoon is a former head coach at Biola U., and most recently spent time in the @astros organization.
UPDATED CAROUSEL: d1baseball.com/coaching-buzz/…
UPDATED CAROUSEL: d1baseball.com/coaching-buzz/…
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Time to find more Cardinals!
Check out where our coaching staff is at this weekend ⬇️
#TakeFlight|#TheWord
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