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Did Ohio State, Cincinnati, Dayton, or Wright State offer him a scholarship?

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You do a lot of good things at the plate. Excellent concentration, you watch the ball hit the bat, you walk away from your hands, and you shift your weight well. If you reduce the length of your stride, you will have better balance which will give you more power and a better ability to hit breaking balls and off-speed pitches. You'll also pull the ball more often, which is very important for lefthanded batters insofar as advancing runners on base from first to third when you are at bat. The stride is easy to shorten. The idea is to find the width of your stride that gives you the optimal balance when you swing into the ball, because optimal balance allows you to use the maximum force of your body, concentrated into the bat as an extension of your body. Boxing and Martial Arts instructors use the following technique to find that width between the feet when they are teaching the proper fighting stance to their students, one that will allow them to be optimally balanced so as to maximize their punching/striking power. That distance is different for every person. Jump into the air as high as you can, as if trying to grab a rebound in basketball. What ever distance your feet are apart when you land is the distance your brain has told your body provides you with optimal balance. That distance should be where you feet wind up relative to each other when you make contact with the ball as a baseball hitter. Now get a pretty strong string, about the size of clothesline string but not as wide as rope. With your feet spread apart at the distance you landed, tie one end of the string once around one ankle, and cut the other end of the string so you can tie that opposite end once around your other ankle. Make about a dozen duplicate strings of the same length in case any break when you are using them. Get a batting tee and a net, and before taking swings off the tee, tie the string to your ankles. As you stand ready to swing, reduce the distance between your feet by at least four inches from the distance the string allows you to spread them, trying to find a distance at which you are comfortable before beginning your swing. Now take your swing into the ball on the tee, the string on your ankles will restrict how far you can stride so you don't go past your optimal balance point. It will feel strange at first but do not let that distract you. After a thousand or so swings off the tee over a two week period, you will have re-trained your muscle memory to take shorter strides. You can't do this during games you play while trying to re-learn the stride, but each time at bat tell yourself to shorten your stride and you will do it without realizing it. And then you will see yourself driving the ball more and pulling it as well. You'll increase your power significantly, because when you are optimally balanced, you don't need to exert energy keeping yourself balanced and thus can focus all of your energy into the swing. And as you see better pitchers in your playing career who can move the ball and change speeds, you will be more in control of your swing to quickly adapt to the movement or velocity change. Being properly balanced at the moment of impact with the ball is as important as any other part of the baseball swing, yet its amazing how few players spend the time to get it right. Its just as important in golf, where the players don't take a stride as they hit the ball, but twist themselves so much with their swing that its easy to get out of balance if their feet are not positioned where their brain tells them their optimum balance is located in their stance. Its the balance that allows a relatively smaller athlete as is found in golf to hit the ball 300 yards while making it look easy. Because when optimally balanced, the golfer can direct all of his or her energy into the club to hit the ball. I would focus as well on improving two other parts of your hitting game. First, you tend to swing under the ball, and when you get to higher levels of baseball where pitchers can really make their four seam fastballs rise, that kind of swing will result in a lot of pop outs along with diminished power relative to what it could be. It seems to be because you're dropping your hands too much as you begin your swing, and then raising them too quickly as they pull the bat through the swing. The result is your bat head points in a somewhat diagonally downward direction as you are making contact, and that's why it gets under the ball and tends to push the ball towards left field. Ideally at the moment of contact, the bat should be pointed in the same direction as the arms. But with your swing, your arms already are pointed towards the field while your bat is still pointed diagonally toward the ground. What the video in slowest playback speed and you'll see it. That usually happens for one of two reasons: the batter is collapsing his back shoulder and side (which you are not doing), or the batter's hands are too low as his swing starts and he is lifting them as he swings, putting the arm direction out of line with the bat direction. Its robbing you of power and going to make it very difficult to hit rising fastballs and breaking pitches that move down. Try to watch the top half of the ball as it comes at you from the pitcher, keeping your hands above the ball and hitting down into it, having your arms lift your swing back up as you make contact. Some instructors teach batters this method by telling them to "throw their hands" at the top half of the ball. Make the bat head go down and get the ball, not your hands. This approach will keep your hands above the ball, and the bat aligned with the arms at the moment of impact as the arms and hands pull the bat through the swing. You'll stay on top of the ball if it rises, and you'll also make better contact on sinking breaking balls and splitters. Wanna see the paradigm swing from a lefthanded batter, watch some old video of another Ohio native, Paul O'Neill. He always was focused on hitting into the top half of the ball, and it made him one of baseball's best hitters. Finally, the bow you are making as you run to first makes me cringe. Every big play in baseball comes down to one step, either the runner beats the throw or the throw beats the runner by a step. You're giving away three or four of them as you run to first. Stop it and learn to do what we used to call "cut the bases" ! You should never have more than one leg outside the runner's box on the way to first, and that same distance outside the base path should be applied to your approach to the other two bases as well. That second hit in your video very well could have been a triple had you not lost steps on your way to first and second base. And while you should never be the first or third out of an inning at third, any time you can pickup a base because of smart baserunning, you'll be helping yourself and your team win games. Especially close games where a run makes the difference between winning and losing. You fix the base running problem after each practice. Instead of doing wind sprints in the outfield, do them on the base paths. Get used to planting the inside part of your left foot on the inside corner of the base, pushing the left leg against that part of the base as you rotate your right hip to the left, and crossing your right leg to the direction where you want your body to go. Initially you will bow out of the base path as you leave the base, but as you build up strength in the inside of your left leg, you will "cut" tighter turns and save a lot of steps as you round the bases. Start off slowly and increase your speed as you become better at the technique. Once you start getting good at it, use this technique every time you approach a base, save for the times when you go yard, and you can Cadillac it around the bases as much as you want as long as you don't piss off the other team or look like a prima donna or a hot dog. These are some of the things the college coaches and pro scouts expect of a player your age, so learn them.

When will he be in the bigs?

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This is sho shaky at times because I was holding the camera

Welcome to ATL

To all of maybe 100 people who were at this game to see Andrew pitch: You got to see a future pro in action in Andrew while you sat or stood in freezing cold weather!😁

Mariner now

I feel like this guy is going to be another Joey Gallo where it's either home run or strikeout

We are just crushes him all day loong

This kid carries the Isotopes in MLB The Show 20

By all his rookie cards and wait a few years

Kind of reminds me of Larry Walker - especially the way he goes the other way with his power

Don't laugh but this dude reminds me of Josh Hamilton. With his power/ speed combo how is he not a higher prospect