If you have a problem with me, call me. If you don't have my number then that means you don't know me well enough to have a problem.

Yordan Alvarez - “I put myself to go hard down the middle. That’s my mentality always. That’s my approach hit the ball hard up the middle.”

More mental than physical..

1st rd 30 picks, you have expected earnings of $45 million 50% will make less than $1 million 1st rd odds of 3yr career 51% 2nd rd odds of 3yr career 29% 3-5rd odds of 3yr career 19% 6-10rd odds of 3yr career 11% 11-20rd odds of 3yr career 6%

"If it's a good idea, baseball probably won't do it."

Pat Gillick - ” When I was scouting i felt if i ever had an opportunity to run a club, I’d treat Scouts the same as Everyone Else,. I wanted to make them feel they felt like they Belonged [to the Organization].”

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No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you. And through you, the universe that surrounds us all comes into focus.

Still - nevertheless; all the same. " Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

We need to go back to preaching that chop-wood swing. Too many swings and misses on middle-middle trying to lift everything. Swing down to swing up .. low line drives and hard ground balls produce the real damage. 💪⚾️

As a hitting coach, I watched players come back to the dugout after making an out. They'd look at me and ask, "What'd you see?" I'd go through the mechanical stuff like back side collapse, front side energy, head came off the ball. Man, it was wearing me out! Finally, I realized I needed to simplify. So the next time a player came back asking what I saw, I just asked him: "Did you get a good pitch to hit?" That usually stopped the conversation. Because if you don't "get a good pitch to hit," it's hard to get a hit. This works in our lives too. Whatever task I take on, I ask myself: Am I putting myself in position to succeed? Did I eliminate distractions? Did I prepare? Did I practice? Am I ready to produce? In life, your "good pitch to hit" probably isn't the same as mine. That's the beauty of it all. I've swung at some bad pitches in my life... so have you. But one bad swing doesn't always end the at-bat. Hitting is a lot like life. It can be simple, but not easy.

We are deeply saddened by the passing of former assistant coach, Lantz Wheeler.

Hurdle-ism 21: It's not about proving others wrong; it's about proving yourself right. For years, I was trapped in a mindset of trying to prove everyone wrong after a bad performance. Then Bobby Cox dropped some wisdom: stop listening to the noise. Only listen to the people who truly care about you and will tell you the truth. It's not about silencing critics; it's about believing in yourself. Tune out the external chatter Learn from every experience Don’t get caught up in what others think.

“Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things." - Tony Gwynn

Dan Heefner explaining the back hip loaded position - Most players desire to feel 'back'.. - But most of the best hitters stay back without going back (Video explaining in replies)

The white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold.