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[Sibelius Hindemith]

Two guys on 2nd and 3rd with JK up down 2-0 and they PH JK and he head back to the dugout to pout. lol

.. and the great Adam Duvall gets a 2-run double in place of Kelenic.

[Donn Beach]

Maybe he was relieved to be pinch hit for

[D-train]

He gets to face Aaron Nola today...

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Looks like Geno and Teo are tearing the cover off the ball. Meanwhile, in Mudville, the hits just keep on (not) coming.

[D-train]

JK having the game of his life. 3-3 with a great diving catch.

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Jesus, did he even get 3 hits all of Spring training?

[Donn Beach]

Like the guy has had the same swing his entire life lol

To me, it seems like Seitzer has been working on Kelenic's swing. That is not an easy adjustment to make. Imagine you spent your whole life doing something the same way and then one day someone tells you to change that routine and do it differently. It is hard to break those habits.

[D-train]

He had 21 game great start last season. Not going to break me after 2 games.

[Bil522]

Like the guy has had the same swing his entire life lol

To me, it seems like Seitzer has been working on Kelenic's swing. That is not an easy adjustment to make. Imagine you spent your whole life doing something the same way and then one day someone tells you to change that routine and do it differently. It is hard to break those habits.

They basically just said that the M's don't teach any kind of adjustments....just let them flail away

[Donn Beach]

The point was the blogger had no idea what he was talking about. The guy was changing his swing

. That's a key indicator that Kelenic's new-look swing, which the Mariners have made so much of, is working. In Spring Training, manager Scott Servais said: "You are going to see more balls in the middle of the field." Well, now the numbers are there

Kelenic's power to center is the product of his revamped approach, which is different this year at every link of the chain: from his upright stance to his low hands during his load, to the more vertical attack angle in his swing -- which lets him keep his bat in the hitting zone longer and square the ball up more consistently. He looks freer at the plate than he ever has.

And actually Servais knows something about swings. With nelson Cruz in town let's bring up Nelson crediting servais with saving his career. Found an article on it from the Grantland. It's interesting in how baseball people were giving up on him, getting labeled AAAA. He was old and struck out too much.

This was when they were both with the Rangers

Instead, Servais saw someone worth saving. “There were some things with his swing that weren’t working,” Servais says. “We had exhausted all of our options and outrighted him off the roster. … When he was back in Triple-A, kind of his last go-round, being the director of player development at the time, it was kind of a last shot sitting down and asking him to make changes in his swing. Physical changes, not just approach.”

Servais asked Cruz to try two things. The first was opening his stance, turning his body toward the pitcher like Andres Galarraga, another hitter who had reinvented himself (and who, with an assist from Coors Field, became one of only three players to hit 40 homers for the first time at an even more advanced age than Cruz was when he managed the feat1). Servais suspected that the pitches Cruz flailed against revealed the root of his problems. “When the ball was down, out over the plate, he was fine. He could handle the pitches. It was just when the ball was elevated he cut his swing off a little bit, so it was an opportunity to see the breaking ball a little bit better, getting him in a more consistent athletic position when he got to the hitting position.”

But the biggest thing, Servais says, was “flattening out his swing so he could catch up to the plus fastballs at the big league level. When they got elevated, he was always underneath the ball. This helped him get flat through the ball, and that’s where his power had a chance to play.” Before the changes, Cruz “was more or less crashing with the ball in a sense, trying to run into it,” Jaramillo says. But Cruz was strong enough that he didn’t need to have Charlie Brown’s swing path to power the ball. He just needed to make contact.

https://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015 ... e-success/