Acuña in HR Derby!

[CrazyTrain]

Rigorous analysis isn't necessary. Common sense says it can throw your swing out of whack for a while. You don't see many long drive champions playing the tour.

That's because long drive champions can't chip or putt well enough to be on tour, so this is a pretty terrible analogy.

I think some guys put more pressure on themselves to hit homers after being in the derby and adjust their swings to hit more. Alonso and Riley likely won't change their swing much because their entire game is built on hitting homers. Acuna isn't that type of hitter.

 

[Southcack77]

I'm pretty sure that a lot of guys who have participated in the Home Run Derby have gone on to monster second halves.

 

[Jaw]

I am big, yes, Sav could say that, but you are trolling, quit it. You are too good not to do this.

Trolling.

And don't forget,

The power I have is enormous

Not a man to mess with.

 

[AerchAngel]

And don't forget,







Not a man to mess with.

Not here, I mean personally.

 

[Tapate50]

I’m going to punctuate every post I make from now on with the key word from the paragraph at the end. It’s too good.

I couldn't agree with you much more. This is great.

Agree.

 

[Tapate50]

And don't forget,





Not a man to mess with.

Odd, but enormous nonetheless.

ODD.

 

[nsacpi]

Odd, but enormous nonetheless.

ODD.

Excellent post.

Excellent.

 

[Runnin]

Apparently, Acuna plays HR derby in his pre-game batting practice, so maybe it won't be such a shock to him.

 

[GeorgiaGirl]

Apparently, Acuna plays HR derby in his pre-game batting practice, so maybe it won't be such a shock to him.

That's been the word. Maybe it changed fairly recently but there's been chatter about how he's put together jaw dropping batting practices with his power (beginning in late 2016 by David Lee on twitter before the breakout). There's also been word about how guys don't try to swing for HRs anymore in batting practice. So, who knows?

Either way, although the splits are potentially trending toward where he possibly could do something similar except with more pop, I wouldn't call Acuna a Freddie type pure bat guy, at least not *yet*. It might surprise, but he pulls more than Riley if you look at fangraphs.