Hopefully, Votto’s new swing is not out on the front porch with Little Charlotte ...
“I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.” — Eddie Bane
“We know we're better than this ... but we can't prove it.” — Tony Gwynn
CySeymour (02-25-2021)
That took me a minute... And was a serious blast from the past.
His "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday" got me into bluegrass music well before it had its moment in the sun. (A 12-year-old singing and picking with Flatt and Scruggs and Doc Watson wasn't typically considered the end-all, be-all of cool in 1984.)
fair point
At this point I just hope that Zinter proves me wrong but why are so many players hiring coaches to fix their swings in the offseason?
In my opinion the Reds after a historically bad offensive year should have fired Alan Zinter?
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Didn't JD Martinez hire a coach to help change his swing and ended up being an MVP candidate?
...the 2-2 to Woodsen and here it comes...and it is swung on and missed! And Tom Browning has pitched a perfect game! Twenty-seven outs in a row, and he is being mobbed by his teammates, just to the thirdbase side of the mound.
I admire the ‘down to the studs’ swing rebuilds, but my favorite is Cozart. I remember the spring training puff pieces about how he shifted his hands a little bit in his stance, and then he proceeds to pound the league to a .930 ops. Maybe there’s hope for Kyle Farmer after all.
Problem is that the Reds had just "fired" Turner Ward after the 2019 season for a "historically bad offensive year." Not sure that Alan Zinter can be blamed for 60 games, where the first 30 were bad and the last 30 were pretty good.
What's funny to me is that all these outside coaches that are being hired - including Driveline - are being run by folks who, for the most part, either never played organized baseball, or never achieved any kind of real success in organized baseball. It's kind of like having the mechanic who works hands-on, on your car ... being trained by someone who never actually looked under a car hood.
“I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.” — Eddie Bane
“We know we're better than this ... but we can't prove it.” — Tony Gwynn
https://www.mlb.com/reds/news/kyle-f...shortstop-spot
Farmer has a new hitting approach that is modeled after Brewers outfielder and former MVP Christian Yelich, a former teammate of Reds second baseman Mike Moustakas.
“The move I try to make is the same as Yelich, where he kind of sinks down and then kind of spreads out, and that's why I talk to Moose a lot about it because him and Moose were really close with the Brewers and they were each other's hitting coaches pretty much,” Farmer explained. “He saw me make the move the first time and he was in the cage and he was like, 'It looks like Yelich.' I've been picking his brain left and right on how Yelich makes his move, what he focuses on.”
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Farmer's double was off a righty today
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