Winn in batters box

[hmoss859]

I am a huge fan of our shortstop and can see the possibility of a hall of fame career but his recent approach in the batters box is very concerning. It looks like he is afraid he going to be hit by the pitch. It looks like he is ready to dodge each pitch and then lunges at it trying to put the bat on the ball. Looks like he needs to get help, maybe needs to see a psyc

HOF my donkey

You burned all cred

[zoiks]

HOF=Hits Only Flares?

[Galatians221jb1]

He slides his right anchor foot backwards as he swings. He has no stability in his lower body and is too far in front. Any high school coach would immediately correct this but we continue to watch him flounder in the box. The same coaches that watched Gorman make the same mistakes over and over and over again simply can’t get through to the players or don’t have the players respect. Bring in Jimmy Edmonds or Pujols or Teddy Simmons to teach these young players the intricacies of hitting. When Pujols played his last season with us the young players were mobbing him. They don’t mob Brandt Brown for some reason

Nomination for Post of the Year.

Thanks. My only problem with Bloom is that he thinks these coaches are the way to rebuild and compete. We need experienced, proven coaches and manager who has a track record of success. The resume's of our coaching staff lack those qualities. Bloom's success starts at building from the inside out. He is difficult to understand. If DeWitt won't let him reorganize then Bloom was foolish to take the job. I think Bloom can get it done but not with this coaching staff and manager. I hope I'm wrong.

[ecleme22]

He slides his right anchor foot backwards as he swings. He has no stability in his lower body and is too far in front. Any high school coach would immediately correct this but we continue to watch him flounder in the box. The same coaches that watched Gorman make the same mistakes over and over and over again simply can’t get through to the players or don’t have the players respect. Bring in Jimmy Edmonds or Pujols or Teddy Simmons to teach these young players the intricacies of hitting. When Pujols played his last season with us the young players were mobbing him. They don’t mob Brandt Brown for some reason

Nomination for Post of the Year.

Thanks. My only problem with Bloom is that he thinks these coaches are the way to rebuild and compete. We need experienced, proven coaches and manager who has a track record of success. The resume's of our coaching staff lack those qualities. Bloom's success starts at building from the inside out. He is difficult to understand. If DeWitt won't let him reorganize then Bloom was foolish to take the job. I think Bloom can get it done but not with this coaching staff and manager. I hope I'm wrong.

Brown is a very experienced coach

[Galatians221jb1]

He slides his right anchor foot backwards as he swings. He has no stability in his lower body and is too far in front. Any high school coach would immediately correct this but we continue to watch him flounder in the box. The same coaches that watched Gorman make the same mistakes over and over and over again simply can’t get through to the players or don’t have the players respect. Bring in Jimmy Edmonds or Pujols or Teddy Simmons to teach these young players the intricacies of hitting. When Pujols played his last season with us the young players were mobbing him. They don’t mob Brandt Brown for some reason

Nomination for Post of the Year.

Thanks. My only problem with Bloom is that he thinks these coaches are the way to rebuild and compete. We need experienced, proven coaches and manager who has a track record of success. The resume's of our coaching staff lack those qualities. Bloom's success starts at building from the inside out. He is difficult to understand. If DeWitt won't let him reorganize then Bloom was foolish to take the job. I think Bloom can get it done but not with this coaching staff and manager. I hope I'm wrong.

Brown is a very experienced coach

At what level? Not the major leagues. He's done nothing to help Gorman, Winn and others. Either they won't listen to him, or he doesn't have the answers. From an organizational perspective, players are coming up from AAA without basic skills. No one expects them to prosper immediately but something isn't getting done within the organization. I believe it may be turning around with the success of the Baez's and many others but it's not happening at the major league level. Hitters are too complacent early in the count, evidently looking for a pitch to pull so they wink at a fast ball right down the middle and that may be the only hittable pitch that they will see in that at bat. When we hit well, we are aggressive early in the strike zone and are hitting the ball to all fields. That's what yielded a 17-game win streak a few years ago and earlier in this season as well. Walker is a great example of this. He's not waiting for a mistake pitch. Anything that he can drive he's going for it. Coaches evidently aren't bothered by our lack of offense lately. We continually make the same mistakes.

[ecleme22]

He slides his right anchor foot backwards as he swings. He has no stability in his lower body and is too far in front. Any high school coach would immediately correct this but we continue to watch him flounder in the box. The same coaches that watched Gorman make the same mistakes over and over and over again simply can’t get through to the players or don’t have the players respect. Bring in Jimmy Edmonds or Pujols or Teddy Simmons to teach these young players the intricacies of hitting. When Pujols played his last season with us the young players were mobbing him. They don’t mob Brandt Brown for some reason

Nomination for Post of the Year.

Thanks. My only problem with Bloom is that he thinks these coaches are the way to rebuild and compete. We need experienced, proven coaches and manager who has a track record of success. The resume's of our coaching staff lack those qualities. Bloom's success starts at building from the inside out. He is difficult to understand. If DeWitt won't let him reorganize then Bloom was foolish to take the job. I think Bloom can get it done but not with this coaching staff and manager. I hope I'm wrong.

Brown is a very experienced coach

At what level? Not the major leagues. He's done nothing to help Gorman, Winn and others. Either they won't listen to him, or he doesn't have the answers. From an organizational perspective, players are coming up from AAA without basic skills. No one expects them to prosper immediately but something isn't getting done within the organization. I believe it may be turning around with the success of the Baez's and many others but it's not happening at the major league level. Hitters are too complacent early in the count, evidently looking for a pitch to pull so they wink at a fast ball right down the middle and that may be the only hittable pitch that they will see in that at bat. When we hit well, we are aggressive early in the strike zone and are hitting the ball to all fields. That's what yielded a 17-game win streak a few years ago and earlier in this season as well. Walker is a great example of this. He's not waiting for a mistake pitch. Anything that he can drive he's going for it. Coaches evidently aren't bothered by our lack of offense lately. We continually make the same mistakes.

BB has been an mlb hitting coach around 9 years

[Voldemort]

He slides his right anchor foot backwards as he swings. He has no stability in his lower body and is too far in front. Any high school coach would immediately correct this but we continue to watch him flounder in the box. The same coaches that watched Gorman make the same mistakes over and over and over again simply can’t get through to the players or don’t have the players respect. Bring in Jimmy Edmonds or Pujols or Teddy Simmons to teach these young players the intricacies of hitting. When Pujols played his last season with us the young players were mobbing him. They don’t mob Brandt Brown for some reason

Nomination for Post of the Year.

Thanks. My only problem with Bloom is that he thinks these coaches are the way to rebuild and compete. We need experienced, proven coaches and manager who has a track record of success. The resume's of our coaching staff lack those qualities. Bloom's success starts at building from the inside out. He is difficult to understand. If DeWitt won't let him reorganize then Bloom was foolish to take the job. I think Bloom can get it done but not with this coaching staff and manager. I hope I'm wrong.

Brown is a very experienced coach

Perhaps this is true. However, a very experienced hitting coach has a way of saying the same thing several different ways. IOWs, one might have a hitter do a drill, and that hitter does not understand the whys of the drill. There are several other ways to get through to a hitter, including video and other drills.

[BrummerStealsHome]

He slides his right anchor foot backwards as he swings. He has no stability in his lower body and is too far in front. Any high school coach would immediately correct this but we continue to watch him flounder in the box. The same coaches that watched Gorman make the same mistakes over and over and over again simply can’t get through to the players or don’t have the players respect. Bring in Jimmy Edmonds or Pujols or Teddy Simmons to teach these young players the intricacies of hitting. When Pujols played his last season with us the young players were mobbing him. They don’t mob Brandt Brown for some reason

If only MLB was aware of CT, high school coaches, and all of the obvious, easy fixes. Everybody in the league would be hitting .300
With the ML average batting average hovering around .235, how have they not gotten high school coaches to "easily correct" all the problems?

On a broader note, I have been among those complaining for well over a decade that players are coming to the bigs lacking the ingrained knowledge of the fundamentals of baseball. There really is a difference between how players are coached through the amateur and collegiate levels and how they get coached through the professional minor leagues. Count me among those who think it's a blind spot for the organization.

Then its a blind spot for the entire ML. There are a few exceptions, but for the majority, ML baseball players cannot hit any more. I personally think that the pitching is just too good today. They didnt see this pitching in HS, college, and very rarely in the minors. Everything they learned through the ranks, becomes moot in the majors.

I won't argue with you on your pitching point. But as to fundamentals they always apply, because execution of fundamentals, over time, WILL crop up as a deciding factor between a win and a loss. Whether it's throwing to the wrong base, covering the right bag, taking the throw on the correct foot, timing a slide correctly, knowing when to slide or to run through a bag, etc., etc., etc. Those are things that can make a difference, and they NEVER show up in a statistic.