Insight from one of the best hitting minds every, I'd love to hear your favorite quote from these: "Hitting is mostly above the shoulders." "Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think!" — from The Science of Hitting. The single most important thing for a hitter, he said, was to get a good ball to hit. This was the core principle of his entire approach. "There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and...

Yesterday I posted two videos. One was 5 minutes, one was 3. Way longer and more in depth than I usually put out. That kind of detail is normally just for the hitters and coaches I train. But I wanted to try something different. Go deeper and longer than what other hitting coaches are posting. A 3 and 5 minute video isn't built to go viral. It won't entertain the masses or fit the 20 second attention span everyone's running on now. (That's fine. It wasn't made for them.) It was made for real...

Matt Holliday said something I always come back to. He tells hitters: if you love to practice, you have a chance. He loved the behind the scenes work. The day to day grind of figuring out how to hit. That was the passion. That's what gave him a career. Most hitters have it backwards. They love the game. The Instagram pictures that come with it. The lights, the crowd, the highlights, the group chat blowing up after they go 3 for 4. That's the fun part. Everybody loves that part. But the game...