"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.
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