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    Quote Originally Posted by ChapelHillMatt View Post
    Honestly I wouldn't. Those guys are talented enough to hit homers without trying to. You develop bad habits by trying to yank everything. Every great hitter will tell you the homers will come without you trying to hit them, if you muscle up and try to hit a homer you can get yourself into a slump.
    Justin always hit well when he was staying on the ball and driving it up the middle. The HRs would come because he was locked in and confident. Still, he (in 2013, anyway) scarcely hit a HR that was less than 400ft. You don't do that without muscling up to some degree. Chipper had a distinctly different swing when he was trying to go with the pitch and poke a single to the opposite field than when he was trying to drive the ball. It's ok for a power hitter in a hitter's count to take a different approach than he would in a situation where he's protecting the plate or just trying to put the ball in play. There's not a one-size-fits-all solution to hitting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thethe View Post
    So much so that you went out of your way to post multiple quotes.....yup
    Do what now?

    I said you said we were experts at identifying strikes and balls (the first quote) and working deep counts (the second quote)

    ...yup

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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    We might squeak one out here and there that we ordinarily wouldn't have with the new approach, but the long run pretty much always rewards power and outside of Freeman, I can't see a lock for double figures in HRs in the line-up. And one would really look good in the middle of the line-up. I don't think it would make us magically into a contender, but to make the next step, we are going to need some middle-of-the-lineup help.

    And you're right, if you got a power guy, you don't really care about his contact rate (unless it really stinks). The problem we had last year is that we had a ton of swing-and-miss guys (I think our swing-and-miss rate for pitches in the strike zone was the worst in baseball) and some of those guys weren't true power guys. We couldn't handle the bat that well, so that cut down on the ability to play hit-and-run and we didn't steal a ton of bases. That means we had to dent the fences to win and we didn't do that often enough.
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    This 1000X. Last year in a nutshell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    Justin always hit well when he was staying on the ball and driving it up the middle. The HRs would come because he was locked in and confident. Still, he (in 2013, anyway) scarcely hit a HR that was less than 400ft. You don't do that without muscling up to some degree. Chipper had a distinctly different swing when he was trying to go with the pitch and poke a single to the opposite field than when he was trying to drive the ball. It's ok for a power hitter in a hitter's count to take a different approach than he would in a situation where he's protecting the plate or just trying to put the ball in play. There's not a one-size-fits-all solution to hitting.
    Good point, I started to add that to my post after rereading what he said.

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    Anyways... good win for the slappies. I would bring up Wood not looking too sharp tonight, but I'd hate to be accused of being mad about Heyward

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    I would have liked to see Justin Upton with Seitzer as hitting coach.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Anyways... good win for the slappies. I would bring up Wood not looking too sharp tonight, but I'd hate to be accused of being mad about Heyward
    He wasn't particularly sharp, and seemed like he had too much going on with his delivery, but he made some big pitches when he needed to. If Markakis cuts that ball off, the Marlins don't even score off him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Anyways... good win for the slappies. I would bring up Wood not looking too sharp tonight, but I'd hate to be accused of being mad about Heyward
    Haha, yea we're mad about Heyward. :)

    Wood said the long first inning waiting like 45 mins after warm-ups made it harder. I think the same happened with Julio after the rain delay too because he looked great before it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dalyn View Post
    I bet he was thrilled he didn't have to play today since the game was postponed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 50PoundHead View Post
    We might squeak one out here and there that we ordinarily wouldn't have with the new approach, but the long run pretty much always rewards power and outside of Freeman, I can't see a lock for double figures in HRs in the line-up. And one would really look good in the middle of the line-up. I don't think it would make us magically into a contender, but to make the next step, we are going to need some middle-of-the-lineup help.

    And you're right, if you got a power guy, you don't really care about his contact rate (unless it really stinks). The problem we had last year is that we had a ton of swing-and-miss guys (I think our swing-and-miss rate for pitches in the strike zone was the worst in baseball) and some of those guys weren't true power guys. We couldn't handle the bat that well, so that cut down on the ability to play hit-and-run and we didn't steal a ton of bases. That means we had to dent the fences to win and we didn't do that often enough.
    I don't think you'll be finding many that disagree that we need power in the middle of the order. You don't want a whole team full of slap hitters but you don't need a team where everyone swings for the fences either. There is a balance between the two. Not every hitter has to be a power hitter to contribute to a good offensive team. I'm looking forward to getting back to a mixture of different type of hitters. Wren's teams, all the hitters looked alike and we suffered as a result.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    Anyways... good win for the slappies. I would bring up Wood not looking too sharp tonight, but I'd hate to be accused of being mad about Heyward
    Well you are mad about Heyward, you've said so yourself, lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Braves1976 View Post
    Wood said the long first inning waiting like 45 mins after warm-ups made it harder.
    I think every guy wishes they could wait 45 minutes...
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    Justin Upton with the RBI triple against the Dodgers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heywood View Post
    I think every guy wishes they could wait 45 minutes...
    Especially with Emma Watson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    Justin Upton with the RBI triple against the Dodgers.
    Where was that hustle when he was here? JK :)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Braves1976 View Post
    Where was that hustle when he was here? JK :)
    I mean, he's a flawed hitter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    I mean, he's a flawed hitter.
    Damn those power hitters, they'll kill a line-up! :)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heywood View Post
    I bet he was thrilled he didn't have to play today since the game was postponed.
    With his lack of love for baseball, that goes without saying. He can roll a blunt and cruise out to Ferguson with his homies. Yo.

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