You’ve got to be really focused and you’ve got to have focused work and be diligent and consistent with it, but you definitely can improve upon it.”Īnderson is not in the midst of a big breakthrough. Again, those are things that you can work on. At that point, it’s almost better off to swing and miss and foul it off or something like that. You’re going to put them in play, but you’re not going to hit them hard, because they’re not good pitches. “You have really good hand-eye coordination and you’re making contact on bad pitches, you’re not going to square pitches up. “It’s almost the curse of the hand-eye (coordination), right? That’s what ( Salvador Perez) had,” said Grifol. But I think it’s always good to try to wait on something in the zone, to where you can really get your A-swing off.” And you may get hits off some of them, and you may not. It’s really good, so that sometimes I just feel like I can hit everything and anything, whether it’s out of the zone (or not). That’s where I really get in trouble because my bat-to-ball skill is really high. “You can wait until that ball comes a little bit closer and it may be able to give you more barrel on it than reaching and getting it off the end. ![]() “You get to a point to where it’s like, you don’t necessarily have to do that,” Anderson said of getting hits on pitches off the outer edge of the strike zone. He turns 30 next month and has his eyes on a style of offense that runs on more than just lightning-quick hands. 300 or higher and this nifty Baseball Prospectus research piece showing how far out of the strike zone Anderson’s hot zone extends, have demonstrated that his effective plate coverage is usually expansive enough that it doesn’t allow for many walks.īut as with doubles and homers, Anderson’s end goal isn’t the result for its own sake. For so much of Anderson’s career, and certainly as a prospect, Anderson has had to counter notions that his plate approach is untenable due to a lack of walks. After Anderson drew walks in each of the first two games of the year in Houston, manager Pedro Grifol said it was actually Anderson’s stated intention to walk more. This conversation began as a follow-up to a thread from the beginning of the season. I’m just really chasing to get my A-swing off and whatever happens, happens. “I don’t necessarily know (if I will hit more homers), but obviously I feel like if I do get my A-swing off, there will be more doubles and more homers. “I just want to get my A-swing off,” Anderson said to The Athletic. But what Anderson feels he can do about the matter dovetails with his plans for maturing his game into the second half of his career. And now, after spending the offseason working to restore the power in his leg load, he was saddled with a fluky early-season knee sprain that has him playing with a taped-up left leg and searching for his offensive rhythm all over again. ![]() There was talk from coaches that his late-May 2022 groin injury sapped strength from his leg base when he returned last season. For the most part, the determinants of this feel a little beyond Anderson’s immediate control.
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