Kellum Clark

[Coach34]

I'll also add Clark is not recognizing spin right now and that'll get you in a bind quick. That 3-2 breaking ball he swung at that bounced, with runners on Sunday told me a lot. He had already determined he was swinging at that pitch before it was thrown and the pitch was never a strike. He has a great swing but it's in his head right now.

Good post by Hoops and now yours. His swing looks fine. His pitch selection and recognition not so much.

Baseball can be like that. Sometime you see the ball great and it looks like a softball coming up there. Sometime you struggle and it looks like a freaking golf ball coming at ya. That's why hitting .300 is success in baseball. It's tough.

Now- certain hitters have pitches that give them problems. They just dont pick them up well for whatever reason. For my personal experience- it was the slider. I was fine on the FB. 12/6 curveball gives people problems but not me. Could pick it up. Slider? I'm flailing up there like Serrano. It didnt even have to be a good slider- just something that moved 2 to 8 and I looked pitiful. Just never could see it. The change does that to alot of hitters

Here's the good problem for us:

McGowan is performing so Clark is going to have to get fixed sooner than later.
Leggs is performing so now Foreskin doesnt get the leeway of struggling for 20 games.
Hines has to perform or we have other bats we can DH

Our roster is deep. We have as good of a bench as I've seen in awhile. Very encouraging.