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Post by Ashitaka on Apr 23, 2023 1:03:53 GMT -6
I really like what Julks is showing at the plate overall, but his lack of more defensive value is going to hurt him. He seems to be a good backup for Brantley though. It's impossible to dislike Julks, but the numbers make it clear he's on borrowed time at the plate, no walk rate, BAbip over .400, nearly 35% strikeout rate... he could still end up leveling out to be about league-average with the bat, but yeah, that's not much to be excited about when you're maybe a slightly-above-average left fielder. This run can only help his trade value though. |
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Post by Saint on Apr 23, 2023 9:46:58 GMT -6
I really like what Julks is showing at the plate overall, but his lack of more defensive value is going to hurt him. He seems to be a good backup for Brantley though. It's impossible to dislike Julks, but the numbers make it clear he's on borrowed time at the plate, no walk rate, BAbip over .400, nearly 35% strikeout rate... he could still end up leveling out to be about league-average with the bat, but yeah, that's not much to be excited about when you're maybe a slightly-above-average left fielder. This run can only help his trade value though. You're assuming that as he cools off he won't work some more walks also to help balance it out. Or also elevate more of these line drives for more extra base hits. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 23, 2023 12:11:35 GMT -6
I really like what Julks is showing at the plate overall, but his lack of more defensive value is going to hurt him. He seems to be a good backup for Brantley though. It's impossible to dislike Julks, but the numbers make it clear he's on borrowed time at the plate, no walk rate, BAbip over .400, nearly 35% strikeout rate... he could still end up leveling out to be about league-average with the bat, but yeah, that's not much to be excited about when you're maybe a slightly-above-average left fielder. This run can only help his trade value though. What about his hard-hit percentage? |
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Post by bearbryant on Apr 23, 2023 17:10:58 GMT -6
I really like what Julks is showing at the plate overall, but his lack of more defensive value is going to hurt him. He seems to be a good backup for Brantley though. It's impossible to dislike Julks, but the numbers make it clear he's on borrowed time at the plate, no walk rate, BAbip over .400, nearly 35% strikeout rate... he could still end up leveling out to be about league-average with the bat, but yeah, that's not much to be excited about when you're maybe a slightly-above-average left fielder. Julks is ideal to PH for Maldonado in the latter innings if Dusty would use him more that way |
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Post by Saint on Apr 23, 2023 17:54:20 GMT -6
Julks had respectable walk rates in the minors and he found his power stroke last year. Even if he only maintains a .750-.800 OPS he'd be a valuable LFer/DH while he is so cheap. Especially since we don't know what we can expect from Brantley this year or beyond.
He's currently at an .803 OPS with great hard hit rates. If Meyers has found his stroke again finally, we have pretty solid cost effective OF depth surprisingly.
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 23, 2023 19:35:42 GMT -6
It's impossible to dislike Julks, but the numbers make it clear he's on borrowed time at the plate, no walk rate, BAbip over .400, nearly 35% strikeout rate... he could still end up leveling out to be about league-average with the bat, but yeah, that's not much to be excited about when you're maybe a slightly-above-average left fielder. Julks is ideal to PH for Maldonado in the latter innings if Dusty would use him more that way And pinch run for Maldy or Brantley. |
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Post by Ashitaka on Apr 24, 2023 2:00:53 GMT -6
It's impossible to dislike Julks, but the numbers make it clear he's on borrowed time at the plate, no walk rate, BAbip over .400, nearly 35% strikeout rate... he could still end up leveling out to be about league-average with the bat, but yeah, that's not much to be excited about when you're maybe a slightly-above-average left fielder. This run can only help his trade value though. You're assuming that as he cools off he won't work some more walks also to help balance it out. Or also elevate more of these line drives for more extra base hits. Yeah he might. Again, I'm not saying he's going to turn into a jellyfish or anything, just that he's probably a league-average bat once the dust settles, and if he can't play CF, that really limits his upside. On a truly good team without injuries, he's probably a 5th outfielder. |
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Post by Ashitaka on Apr 24, 2023 13:47:48 GMT -6
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Post by thomasj13 on Apr 24, 2023 14:03:39 GMT -6
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Apr 25, 2023 13:03:53 GMT -6
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Post by koolade2 on Apr 25, 2023 13:57:47 GMT -6
If anyone is going to this game and gets a spare ring, I'll pay you $40 if you send it to me. Now I am jealous as living almost 2000 miles away, never get a chance for something like this. Long Distant fans are the ones that are always screwed when they do Fan give aways |
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Post by talshill on Apr 25, 2023 15:31:07 GMT -6
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Post by bearbryant on Apr 25, 2023 17:47:27 GMT -6
Bryan Reynolds and Pittsburgh agree to 8yr/$106M extension
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Post by Saint on Apr 25, 2023 18:39:40 GMT -6
If anyone is going to this game and gets a spare ring, I'll pay you $40 if you send it to me. I might end up with an extra. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Apr 25, 2023 19:46:51 GMT -6
Bryan Reynolds and Pittsburgh agree to 8yr/$106M extension Tick tock on Tucker. |
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Post by Saint on Apr 25, 2023 20:18:28 GMT -6
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Post by talshill on Apr 25, 2023 22:13:53 GMT -6
If anyone is going to this game and gets a spare ring, I'll pay you $40 if you send it to me. I might end up with an extra. I may go to this game. And get a ring. Then post a picture of it. So Bortaz can be jealous. |
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Post by ɮօʀȶǟʐ on Apr 26, 2023 6:07:26 GMT -6
I might end up with an extra. I may go to this game. And get a ring. Then post a picture of it. So Bortaz can be jealous. #banned |
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Post by mihdennabios on Apr 26, 2023 6:53:49 GMT -6
WE can all breathe a sigh of relief... Josh Rojas now has a sub 700 OPS
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Post by Saint on Apr 26, 2023 7:53:33 GMT -6
WE can all breathe a sigh of relief... Josh Rojas now has a sub 700 OPS Why do we care about Josh Rojas? |
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Post by Ashitaka on Apr 27, 2023 23:31:50 GMT -6
Rangers lost while we were off, tied for 1st in the AL West now.
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Post by Ashitaka on Apr 28, 2023 12:13:06 GMT -6
Article about Jake Meyers' turnaround in the Athletic: theathletic.com/4438615/2023/04/21/jake-meyers-leg-kick-astros/ATLANTA — Jake Meyers’ mind is often his worst enemy.
He can complicate routine tasks and overthink almost everything about his offensive approach. Freeing Meyers from his own thoughts, however, was remarkably simple: it just took one Monday afternoon meeting inside the Astros’ batting cages.
Chas McCormick had injured his back a day earlier, making Meyers the team’s temporary center fielder — one with a mechanical flaw he needed to fix.
Meyers had struck out nine times and totaled four hits in his first 23 at-bats, cratering any chance he had for consistent playing time in center field over McCormick. Hitting coaches Jason Kanzler and Troy Snitker saw a hitter getting stuck on his backside and unable to produce any forward momentum. Meyers understood his problem but struggled to find a solution.
Meyers’ tendency to overthink crept in and crippled him. Kanzler and Snitker simplified the process. The two coaches summoned Meyers into a meeting before the Astros’ game against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 17 with two well-explained options for him to ponder.
“I think they did a good job of bringing me back to what the real, main problem of what was going on,” Meyers said. “It was nice of them to kind of sit me down and say ‘This is what it is, and this is how we should go.’ I think that really helped me.”
Snitker and Kanzler’s two choices were straightforward: Meyers could either narrow his batting stance and generate natural forward momentum, or add a leg kick in place of his toe tap. Meyers chose the leg kick. At around 1:30 p.m. that day, he stepped inside the batting cage and tried some swings with it. An hour and a half later, Meyers carried the leg kick over into early, on-field batting practice.
“More motion and less static-ness means less opportunity for him to, in the moment, feel, essentially,” Kanzler said. “Most guys, you want them to feel good things. For Jake, he’s a unique case where I’d much rather him just basically black out and be athletic. This kind of feeds into that. I’m going to put you in motion, you’re going to be in the air, you’re going to have bigger moves. Attack the ball.”
At 8:31 p.m., Meyers received his first chance. Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman left a 93.8 mph four-seam fastball on the outer half. Meyers lifted his front leg and mashed the baseball 358 feet into the right field seats. It exited his bat at 105.6 mph. He had only hit three balls harder than 100 mph all season.
“That’s what you dream of, and for, as coaches,” Kanzler said. “You introduce something that feels like a drastic change and then the very first time a guy tries it, they have immediate success, it just helps the mind. Not that he would have given up on it if it didn’t result in a homer, but it makes it a lot easier to stick with it. We were going crazy in the dugout.”
Meyers returned and joined the revelry. He acknowledged “going nuts” during the immediate aftermath — the exact antithesis of Meyers’ usual disposition. Extracting outward emotion from him is difficult, but an offensive breakthrough will brighten anyone’s demeanor. Five hours after adding it, Meyers may have discovered a cure to his offensive woes.
Meyers is 7-for-22 since adding his leg kick, including a 2-for-5 showing during Friday night’s 6-4 win against the Braves. He catalyzed the Astros’ game-tying rally with a run-scoring single during the seventh, an opposite-field liner that epitomized an entirely new offensive approach.
Opponents continue to pepper him away and Meyers is now better equipped to go with pitches toward the opposite field. All six of his hits since adding the leg kick have gone the other way, including the single against Jesse Chavez in the seventh inning. Meyers’ second-inning single off Atlanta starter Bryce Elder bounced through the six-hole and exited the bat at 100.4 mph.
Since Meyers started using the leg kick, five of his 11 batted balls have been hit 99.6 mph or harder. He struck just two batted balls that hard before making the adjustment. To the untrained eye, Meyers’ timing on fastballs appears fixed, but it may never have been an issue at all.
“It probably looked like he was late, but it’s not that his body was late to where it needed to be, it’s that he was in such a stuck back position that when it came time to actually launch the swing, he was just slower,” Kanzler said. “He wasn’t in an athletic spot, so it would look like he’s late even though he wasn’t late to get that spot. It’s just not a good spot, so it’s going to be slower.”
Meyers used a small leg kick during his collegiate career at Nebraska and experimented with it again during his early minor league career. He alternated between a leg kick and toe tap at the alternate training site during the 2020 pandemic season and again during his breakout season at Triple A in 2021.
That season, Meyers’ minor league performance precipitated a trade of starting center fielder Myles Straw. The Astros promoted Meyers and put him in a timeshare with McCormick — much like the one they’re trying to juggle now in center field. A torn labrum during the 2021 American League Division Series stunted Meyers’ progress, as did the team’s mismanagement of his return from the injury last season.
Former general manager James Click promised a “review of our return-to-play procedure” in the wake of Meyers’ pronounced post-surgery struggles. He struck out 54 times in 150 major league at-bats last season and never seemed comfortable in center field, where teams ran routinely on his surgically-repaired left arm. Meyers spent the winter working on a quicker glove-to-hand transfer to solve some of his throwing problems.
“It was really about quickening up the exchange,” Meyers said. Sometimes I have a tendency to take too long and it puts me in a position to where my arm is late. So, I lose arm strength and it’s harder to be accurate like that. It’s intertwined.”
Meyers entered Friday’s game worth four defensive runs saved, according to Sports Info Solutions. Among center fielders, only Kansas City’s Kyle Isbel is worth more. Metrics paint Meyers as a better defensive center fielder than McCormick, but the team opted for a more potent offensive weapon given its already weakened lineup.
McCormick is expected back from the injured list in time for Tuesday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays. McCormick did nothing to lose his starting job, but Meyers’ offensive resurgence invites wonder whether manager Dusty Baker could split playing time in center field more evenly. Meyers, with a clear mind and more forward momentum, may make the decision difficult.
“Once I committed (to the leg kick) before the game, I kind of let it ride and just played the game,” Meyers said. “I think it’s really helped me to simplify (the game). Finding something that is working and has worked has really helped me simplify and not overthink.” |
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Post by m240 on Apr 28, 2023 13:22:48 GMT -6
Article about Jake Meyers' turnaround in the Athletic: theathletic.com/4438615/2023/04/21/jake-meyers-leg-kick-astros/ATLANTA — Jake Meyers’ mind is often his worst enemy.
He can complicate routine tasks and overthink almost everything about his offensive approach. Freeing Meyers from his own thoughts, however, was remarkably simple: it just took one Monday afternoon meeting inside the Astros’ batting cages.
Chas McCormick had injured his back a day earlier, making Meyers the team’s temporary center fielder — one with a mechanical flaw he needed to fix.
Meyers had struck out nine times and totaled four hits in his first 23 at-bats, cratering any chance he had for consistent playing time in center field over McCormick. Hitting coaches Jason Kanzler and Troy Snitker saw a hitter getting stuck on his backside and unable to produce any forward momentum. Meyers understood his problem but struggled to find a solution.
Meyers’ tendency to overthink crept in and crippled him. Kanzler and Snitker simplified the process. The two coaches summoned Meyers into a meeting before the Astros’ game against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 17 with two well-explained options for him to ponder.
“I think they did a good job of bringing me back to what the real, main problem of what was going on,” Meyers said. “It was nice of them to kind of sit me down and say ‘This is what it is, and this is how we should go.’ I think that really helped me.”
Snitker and Kanzler’s two choices were straightforward: Meyers could either narrow his batting stance and generate natural forward momentum, or add a leg kick in place of his toe tap. Meyers chose the leg kick. At around 1:30 p.m. that day, he stepped inside the batting cage and tried some swings with it. An hour and a half later, Meyers carried the leg kick over into early, on-field batting practice.
“More motion and less static-ness means less opportunity for him to, in the moment, feel, essentially,” Kanzler said. “Most guys, you want them to feel good things. For Jake, he’s a unique case where I’d much rather him just basically black out and be athletic. This kind of feeds into that. I’m going to put you in motion, you’re going to be in the air, you’re going to have bigger moves. Attack the ball.”
At 8:31 p.m., Meyers received his first chance. Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman left a 93.8 mph four-seam fastball on the outer half. Meyers lifted his front leg and mashed the baseball 358 feet into the right field seats. It exited his bat at 105.6 mph. He had only hit three balls harder than 100 mph all season.
“That’s what you dream of, and for, as coaches,” Kanzler said. “You introduce something that feels like a drastic change and then the very first time a guy tries it, they have immediate success, it just helps the mind. Not that he would have given up on it if it didn’t result in a homer, but it makes it a lot easier to stick with it. We were going crazy in the dugout.”
Meyers returned and joined the revelry. He acknowledged “going nuts” during the immediate aftermath — the exact antithesis of Meyers’ usual disposition. Extracting outward emotion from him is difficult, but an offensive breakthrough will brighten anyone’s demeanor. Five hours after adding it, Meyers may have discovered a cure to his offensive woes.
Meyers is 7-for-22 since adding his leg kick, including a 2-for-5 showing during Friday night’s 6-4 win against the Braves. He catalyzed the Astros’ game-tying rally with a run-scoring single during the seventh, an opposite-field liner that epitomized an entirely new offensive approach.
Opponents continue to pepper him away and Meyers is now better equipped to go with pitches toward the opposite field. All six of his hits since adding the leg kick have gone the other way, including the single against Jesse Chavez in the seventh inning. Meyers’ second-inning single off Atlanta starter Bryce Elder bounced through the six-hole and exited the bat at 100.4 mph.
Since Meyers started using the leg kick, five of his 11 batted balls have been hit 99.6 mph or harder. He struck just two batted balls that hard before making the adjustment. To the untrained eye, Meyers’ timing on fastballs appears fixed, but it may never have been an issue at all.
“It probably looked like he was late, but it’s not that his body was late to where it needed to be, it’s that he was in such a stuck back position that when it came time to actually launch the swing, he was just slower,” Kanzler said. “He wasn’t in an athletic spot, so it would look like he’s late even though he wasn’t late to get that spot. It’s just not a good spot, so it’s going to be slower.”
Meyers used a small leg kick during his collegiate career at Nebraska and experimented with it again during his early minor league career. He alternated between a leg kick and toe tap at the alternate training site during the 2020 pandemic season and again during his breakout season at Triple A in 2021.
That season, Meyers’ minor league performance precipitated a trade of starting center fielder Myles Straw. The Astros promoted Meyers and put him in a timeshare with McCormick — much like the one they’re trying to juggle now in center field. A torn labrum during the 2021 American League Division Series stunted Meyers’ progress, as did the team’s mismanagement of his return from the injury last season.
Former general manager James Click promised a “review of our return-to-play procedure” in the wake of Meyers’ pronounced post-surgery struggles. He struck out 54 times in 150 major league at-bats last season and never seemed comfortable in center field, where teams ran routinely on his surgically-repaired left arm. Meyers spent the winter working on a quicker glove-to-hand transfer to solve some of his throwing problems.
“It was really about quickening up the exchange,” Meyers said. Sometimes I have a tendency to take too long and it puts me in a position to where my arm is late. So, I lose arm strength and it’s harder to be accurate like that. It’s intertwined.”
Meyers entered Friday’s game worth four defensive runs saved, according to Sports Info Solutions. Among center fielders, only Kansas City’s Kyle Isbel is worth more. Metrics paint Meyers as a better defensive center fielder than McCormick, but the team opted for a more potent offensive weapon given its already weakened lineup.
McCormick is expected back from the injured list in time for Tuesday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays. McCormick did nothing to lose his starting job, but Meyers’ offensive resurgence invites wonder whether manager Dusty Baker could split playing time in center field more evenly. Meyers, with a clear mind and more forward momentum, may make the decision difficult.
“Once I committed (to the leg kick) before the game, I kind of let it ride and just played the game,” Meyers said. “I think it’s really helped me to simplify (the game). Finding something that is working and has worked has really helped me simplify and not overthink.”I had not seen this article and it is very encouraging. I kind of gave up hope on this guy and it looks like the hitting coaches figured stuff out. If true it is a perfect example of the value of good coaching and coaches. |
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Post by thomasj13 on Apr 28, 2023 13:44:43 GMT -6
Article about Jake Meyers' turnaround in the Athletic: theathletic.com/4438615/2023/04/21/jake-meyers-leg-kick-astros/ATLANTA — Jake Meyers’ mind is often his worst enemy.
He can complicate routine tasks and overthink almost everything about his offensive approach. Freeing Meyers from his own thoughts, however, was remarkably simple: it just took one Monday afternoon meeting inside the Astros’ batting cages.
Chas McCormick had injured his back a day earlier, making Meyers the team’s temporary center fielder — one with a mechanical flaw he needed to fix.
Meyers had struck out nine times and totaled four hits in his first 23 at-bats, cratering any chance he had for consistent playing time in center field over McCormick. Hitting coaches Jason Kanzler and Troy Snitker saw a hitter getting stuck on his backside and unable to produce any forward momentum. Meyers understood his problem but struggled to find a solution.
Meyers’ tendency to overthink crept in and crippled him. Kanzler and Snitker simplified the process. The two coaches summoned Meyers into a meeting before the Astros’ game against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 17 with two well-explained options for him to ponder.
“I think they did a good job of bringing me back to what the real, main problem of what was going on,” Meyers said. “It was nice of them to kind of sit me down and say ‘This is what it is, and this is how we should go.’ I think that really helped me.”
Snitker and Kanzler’s two choices were straightforward: Meyers could either narrow his batting stance and generate natural forward momentum, or add a leg kick in place of his toe tap. Meyers chose the leg kick. At around 1:30 p.m. that day, he stepped inside the batting cage and tried some swings with it. An hour and a half later, Meyers carried the leg kick over into early, on-field batting practice.
“More motion and less static-ness means less opportunity for him to, in the moment, feel, essentially,” Kanzler said. “Most guys, you want them to feel good things. For Jake, he’s a unique case where I’d much rather him just basically black out and be athletic. This kind of feeds into that. I’m going to put you in motion, you’re going to be in the air, you’re going to have bigger moves. Attack the ball.”
At 8:31 p.m., Meyers received his first chance. Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman left a 93.8 mph four-seam fastball on the outer half. Meyers lifted his front leg and mashed the baseball 358 feet into the right field seats. It exited his bat at 105.6 mph. He had only hit three balls harder than 100 mph all season.
“That’s what you dream of, and for, as coaches,” Kanzler said. “You introduce something that feels like a drastic change and then the very first time a guy tries it, they have immediate success, it just helps the mind. Not that he would have given up on it if it didn’t result in a homer, but it makes it a lot easier to stick with it. We were going crazy in the dugout.”
Meyers returned and joined the revelry. He acknowledged “going nuts” during the immediate aftermath — the exact antithesis of Meyers’ usual disposition. Extracting outward emotion from him is difficult, but an offensive breakthrough will brighten anyone’s demeanor. Five hours after adding it, Meyers may have discovered a cure to his offensive woes.
Meyers is 7-for-22 since adding his leg kick, including a 2-for-5 showing during Friday night’s 6-4 win against the Braves. He catalyzed the Astros’ game-tying rally with a run-scoring single during the seventh, an opposite-field liner that epitomized an entirely new offensive approach.
Opponents continue to pepper him away and Meyers is now better equipped to go with pitches toward the opposite field. All six of his hits since adding the leg kick have gone the other way, including the single against Jesse Chavez in the seventh inning. Meyers’ second-inning single off Atlanta starter Bryce Elder bounced through the six-hole and exited the bat at 100.4 mph.
Since Meyers started using the leg kick, five of his 11 batted balls have been hit 99.6 mph or harder. He struck just two batted balls that hard before making the adjustment. To the untrained eye, Meyers’ timing on fastballs appears fixed, but it may never have been an issue at all.
“It probably looked like he was late, but it’s not that his body was late to where it needed to be, it’s that he was in such a stuck back position that when it came time to actually launch the swing, he was just slower,” Kanzler said. “He wasn’t in an athletic spot, so it would look like he’s late even though he wasn’t late to get that spot. It’s just not a good spot, so it’s going to be slower.”
Meyers used a small leg kick during his collegiate career at Nebraska and experimented with it again during his early minor league career. He alternated between a leg kick and toe tap at the alternate training site during the 2020 pandemic season and again during his breakout season at Triple A in 2021.
That season, Meyers’ minor league performance precipitated a trade of starting center fielder Myles Straw. The Astros promoted Meyers and put him in a timeshare with McCormick — much like the one they’re trying to juggle now in center field. A torn labrum during the 2021 American League Division Series stunted Meyers’ progress, as did the team’s mismanagement of his return from the injury last season.
Former general manager James Click promised a “review of our return-to-play procedure” in the wake of Meyers’ pronounced post-surgery struggles. He struck out 54 times in 150 major league at-bats last season and never seemed comfortable in center field, where teams ran routinely on his surgically-repaired left arm. Meyers spent the winter working on a quicker glove-to-hand transfer to solve some of his throwing problems.
“It was really about quickening up the exchange,” Meyers said. Sometimes I have a tendency to take too long and it puts me in a position to where my arm is late. So, I lose arm strength and it’s harder to be accurate like that. It’s intertwined.”
Meyers entered Friday’s game worth four defensive runs saved, according to Sports Info Solutions. Among center fielders, only Kansas City’s Kyle Isbel is worth more. Metrics paint Meyers as a better defensive center fielder than McCormick, but the team opted for a more potent offensive weapon given its already weakened lineup.
McCormick is expected back from the injured list in time for Tuesday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays. McCormick did nothing to lose his starting job, but Meyers’ offensive resurgence invites wonder whether manager Dusty Baker could split playing time in center field more evenly. Meyers, with a clear mind and more forward momentum, may make the decision difficult.
“Once I committed (to the leg kick) before the game, I kind of let it ride and just played the game,” Meyers said. “I think it’s really helped me to simplify (the game). Finding something that is working and has worked has really helped me simplify and not overthink.”Okay, time to work with Abreu |
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Post by Ashitaka on Apr 28, 2023 16:21:48 GMT -6
I had not seen this article and it is very encouraging. I kind of gave up hope on this guy and it looks like the hitting coaches figured stuff out. If true it is a perfect example of the value of good coaching and coaches. Yeah it's pretty great. I wonder what they do when Chas gets back though. If Meyers keeps hitting he's the better player, but Chas is good enough to be a starting CF for most teams. Wouldn't be shocked to see a trade at the deadline. Initially though I think Brantley will be eased back in slowly enough that there should be playing time to go around. |
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Post by Saint on Apr 28, 2023 16:32:26 GMT -6
Yeah it's pretty great. I wonder what they do when Chas gets back though. If Meyers keeps hitting he's the better player, but Chas is good enough to be a starting CF for most teams. Wouldn't be shocked to see a trade at the deadline. Initially though I think Brantley will be eased back in slowly enough that there should be playing time to go around. I'd say Chas has proven he's the better player when you look at their bodies of work over the last few seasons, and he has earned the right to get the bulk of the playing time. Meyers might have more potential, but Chas has been the guy actually getting things done. Yordan should be strictly a DH, with Chas playing both some LF and CF when Brantley plays LF. Meyers certainly deserves a chance to keep playing some, but Chas was better when he got hurt than Meyers is now. I guess I would like to see Meyers maintain what he's doing for longer before he takes too much playing time away from Chas. (If Chas struggles, so be it.) |
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Post by bearbryant on Apr 28, 2023 16:46:29 GMT -6
They may hold on to Meyers so someone cheap can play LF next season
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Post by Saint on Apr 28, 2023 17:28:45 GMT -6
They may hold on to Meyers so someone cheap can play LF next season That's the good thing. If they both perform, we have our primary OF for next year while Gilbert or whomever develops. |
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