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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Sure, but Piscotty wasn't going to approach holliday in his younger days. He was a slow shane victorino. A pure singles hitter with no defensive versatility isn't a valuable player.
Holliday was always a guy that crushed liners. Piscotty was a groundball hitter who occasionally squared up a double. He needed to add loft to his swing to turn more of the grounders into liners and some of the doubles into HRs. With 14 doubles and 7 HRs, it's definitely working. They're not turning him into an all or nothing hitter like Reynolds (his K rate is still quite good), they're trying to get him to become a rough equivalent to holliday.
It was a needed change. if he didn't add power, his walks were bound to fall off as well as pitchers lost any fear of him.
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Ok, gotcha. I don't hate it and there have certainly been examples of people changes approach like that for the better. I always think muscle memory stuff is tough though, but if it's for the better, so be it.