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On his hitting approach: “I try to hit the ball hard, and low. I don’t try to hit home runs. I try to hit line drives and hard ground balls. If I end up getting under one, that’s when they go out. I pride myself in having good at bats with two strikes, trying to put the ball in play however I can. It doesn’t matter if I get jammed and break a bat, as long as I make contact. My mentality changes with two strikes. I become a little more competitive and just try to put the ball in play.

“You hear the term ‘hitting down through the ball,’ and that’s something I try to do. I’m not trying to chop at the ball, I’m trying to keep my bat on kind of a flat plane, and contact the ball square. If you hit the ball low and hard, you’re going to have a lot better chance than if you hit it up in the air. Hitting down through the ball, and hitting line drives, is my approach.”

33anda3rd wrote:PIscotty is good enough to stick in RF, not CF. He's 6'3" 210lbs, and will get bigger. He's got the stick to play everyday.

AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:Jon Jay is definitely a great example of the sum of the parts are greater than the individual tools type of player. To be honest, I still don't understand how he was able to play an average CF.

go birds wrote:we talkin like a 20HR rfer here?