Hunter Hines is 20 HRs sitting on the bench.

[Pancho]

at least he in his first AB

[Todd4State]

Hunter made some progress tonight. I hope he keeps doing it. If he does the home runs will come.

That's kind of the paradox of power hitting for me. If you are a great hitter and have the God given bat speed the home runs will come if you are a power hitter. Look at the batting average of guys like Ruth, Bonds, Aaron, Pujols, etc. and compare it to Dave Kingman and Joey Gallo and then look at how many home runs each of them hit.

[EdwardDrayton]

Hunter made some progress tonight. I hope he keeps doing it. If he does the home runs will come.

That's kind of the paradox of power hitting for me. If you are a great hitter and have the God given bat speed the home runs will come if you are a power hitter. Look at the batting average of guys like Ruth, Bonds, Aaron, Pujols, etc. and compare it to Dave Kingman and Joey Gallo and then look at how many home runs each of them hit.

Yes he did. I only remember one pitch in his third at bat where the shoulder/hip were way too quick and he spun out. In his defense though it was a mean sweeping slider from the lefthander. Otherwise he did a good job of controlling the aggressive rotation, he was balanced with a good hitting posture and did pretty good squaring through the zone. Think some more ABs for it to become second nature and he's on to something.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Thank you. I am not an mlb scout, but what was true last season is still true. Exactly what you said about breaking pitches.

Now if he would drive those opp field, he would average around .400 with way more extra base hits. And they wouldn?t be able to shift and pitch him outside.