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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Mondesi had two more hits in Omaha tonight, too. They got bombed (Staumont walked six in less than two innings, regressing BIG TIME), but Mondesi and Soler keep crushing.
The 1-4 of Billy Burns, Mondesi, Starling, and Soler is probably better than the 1-4 Dayton Moore inherited or put on the field in 2007.
If the improvement Bubba Starling has made sticks/holds, they should give Omaha hitting coach Tommy Gregg a medal*. A simple mechanical change for Starling suddenly has him hitting to all fields and made his strikeout rate plummet (a guy with a career 32 percent K rate entering the year, Starling has dropped that to twenty percent since the beginning of May - that's 150 ABs).
*Maybe he needs to spend a few weeks in Alex Gordon's spare room?
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I've always wondered why the best hitting coaches don't travel around through the minors? The time a guy really needs a hitting coach is when he's coming up trying to make it, not when he's in the majors.