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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
There was a lot of chatter about some things Myers had to fix as a hitter when he got to Tampa, so I think there’s something to that.
That turd Jack Maloof was the minor league hitting instructor for a long time before his disastrous stint as hitting coach in 2013, so I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
They were old school for too long, and the outcomes of that were overcoaching pitchers and forcing them into a specific box, and not coaching hitters enough as long as they were succeeding.
I think it has improved.
Re: Hosmer and his swing, maybe another org could have broken his bad habits... but not sure how many could have.
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Hosmer's a guy that has been seen as difficult to coach for awhile; very headstrong. And I just don't know if there's an easy fix (or one that can be made over a reasonable timeline) for a guy with that much noise in his swing.
You really are talking about the kind of 2 year, tear apart and re-build kind of process that Heyward's going through right now that may or may not be actually bearing fruit.
"Why didn't they fix Hosmer?" is so much easier asked than answered. There wasn't just one little hitch in there - his swing and his approach sure look to be bad habits built on bad habits.