*** Kansas City Royals @ Cleveland Indians Game Thread (4/21) ***

[Mother****erJones]

Originally Posted by theelusiveeightrop

Hitting coach needs to be fired

Most of the time it's not the coach. Especially with your lineup. You just fired one like a year ago.

But the right coach can with the right approach get guys going. White Sox hired Todd Steverson as out hitting coach. He's changed our hitter approach and worked with guys and it's worked wonders. Preaching patience and working counts.

[Three7s]

Originally Posted by Mother****erJones

Most of the time it's not the coach. Especially with your lineup. You just fired one like a year ago.

But the right coach can with the right approach get guys going. White Sox hired Todd Steverson as out hitting coach. He's changed our hitter approach and worked with guys and it's worked wonders. Preaching patience and working counts.

Same as the Twins. I would love it if the Royals had the Twins hitting approach.

[alnorth]

Originally Posted by Three7s

Same as the Twins. I would love it if the Royals had the Twins hitting approach.

The Royals have been fairly patient and working counts. I'm not convinced thats the problem.

When they do get that fat mistake pitch over the middle, the best we've been able to do is, in general, hit a gapper for a double, and thats actually an alarming (and demoralizing) thing: perhaps the players themselves are just unable to consistently hit for power. If that is the case, then this thing can't be fixed and we're doomed.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by alnorth

The Royals have been fairly patient and working counts. I'm not convinced thats the problem.

When they do get that fat mistake pitch over the middle, the best we've been able to do is, in general, hit a gapper for a double, and thats actually an alarming (and demoralizing) thing: perhaps the players themselves are just unable to consistently hit for power. If that is the case, then this thing can't be fixed and we're doomed.

I seems like most of the Royals hits are generally to the center portion of the field. Nobody pulls the ball which would be the shortest route to hitting a HR.