"I stopped trying so hard" = MVP season
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Pete Crow-Armstrong said something that should make a lot of hitters think.. In an interview weeks ago, he admitted it. Any time he struggled, he’d try to hit more. More cage time. More swings. More effort. HARDER. MORE. Now he’s trying to do less. Calm. Routine. Process. That’s the part most hitters will scroll past. Because it sounds backwards. But it’s the exact thing I’ve watched with my own guys for years. The hardest workers don’t always get the best results. Sometimes the guy who seems to care the least is the one who leaves the yard. Not because the work doesn’t matter. It does. That part’s table stakes. But because most hitters carry so much pressure into the box that the work never shows up. He did the reps. He just dragged the weight of them up there with him. I was that guy. Shaking in the box. Heart racing. Not because I was scared of the pitcher. Because I cared too much about the result. I thought the fix was more reps. It wasn’t. It was doing less. Less thinking about me. More thinking about scoring runs for the team. When your focus shifts from “me” to “we,” the pressure loses its grip. That’s when the swing you worked your butt off for finally shows up. So here’s the question: are you grinding to get better? Or are you grinding just to feel busy? Train winning. Not just volume. I broke the whole thing down slide by slide. |
Trey Hannam Training
Written for Hitters, Parents, Coaches. My Goal is To Be The Coach I Wish I Had.
I'm teaching my kids these two things first. It would've changed everything for me. Most players work on the wrong thing their entire career. • They fix their stance • Adjust their load • Tweak their swing path The one that actually separates good from elite goes completely ignored. Your mind. Looking back, the most damaging thing in my development wasn't bad coaching or bad reps. It was the slow erosion of belief that came from a constant focus on what was wrong. A player who believes he's...
Like a lot of you know, I'm always figuring out what's best for the hitter. Some need to rotate more. Some need to rotate less. For some, it depends on the week. So I built both. Like I do for every hitter I coach. Now you pick. Need to rotate more? The Rotate Better, Swing Shorter Hitting Program Use the ground and turn behind the ball. 👉 https://treyhannamtraining.mykajabi.com/rotation-power-program Need to rotate less? The Stop Spinning, Stay Through the Ball Hitting Program Stay closed...
A 90 mph fastball gets to the plate in 0.4 seconds. Josh was bringing 5 swing thoughts with him. He’s a sophomore in Remote Results. In the cage he hits like Tarzan. In games he hits like Jane. This week I posted a graphic. The average hitter carries 8 thoughts: grip, stance, hands, Dad’s tip, coach’s tip, don’t pull off, be ready, hunt your pitch. The elite hitter focuses on the last 2. (The first 6 are real. I coach every one. They just live in the cage.) Here’s the split I gave Josh. Cage:...