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Tag: Plate Discipline

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One Potential Fix for Kevin Pillar’s Hitting Woes

by Joshua Howsam February 2, 2017

Late last week, Gideon Turk wondered what would happen if Kevin Pillar were more like Vladimir Guerrero. The seemingly ridiculous question was actually anything but, predicated on the idea that Guerrero was unnaturally good at getting hits when he made contact on balls out of the zone, whereas most of Pillar’s such contact turns into […]

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