Javier Baez Can't Stop Swinging at Everything, and It's Killing His Career
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I was at a Tigers game a few weeks ago and a vender was walking by so I asked him to toss me a bag peanuts. Baez swung at it and struck out.
Stop it bro 😂😂😂
I’ve heard that one before haha 😂
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Javy saw this comment. He went to click the dislike button, but he missed that too.
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I remember in 2021, many Met fans were crying for the Mets to sign him to a long-term deal in the offseason. Their mouths drooled over the thought of a Baez lindor infield. Thank God they dodged that bullet.
Yea just think if they had done that. They’d be 10 games under .500 instead of just 6
Lindor contract is terrible too.
@@doublem1975xI don’t think he’s a bad player, but at that salary he’s way overpaid.
@@rich7787 Lindor is a good defensive shortstop, but he is incredibly streaky. He just can't seem to hit in the spring.
@@rich7787 i feel like good teams develop their own shortstops instead of buying them. look at who have been generational talents at that position, arod, jeter, hanley ramirez, even simmons cozart. all were young guys locked under team control in their prime years
Baez is just me in MLB the Show
Literally 😂
Same lol 😂
Same
I can't lay off the outside sliders 😂😂
For me it’s the fact that he goes out there and NEVER CHANGES ANYTHING. It’s the same approach time and time again. Like idk try removing that huge leg kick, or less movement, different stance.. something!!
Ironically, Yogi was known for being better than anyone at hitting pitches nowhere near the strike zone. Baez has to remember he's not Yogi though lol.
Baez is the only hitter I ever saw who actually swung at a pitch that bounced a foot in front of the plate and managed to golf it into the gap for a double, like a cricket player.
Vladimir Guerrero did that a couple times
Vladimir Guerrero
Vladimir Guerrero Sr
Tbf to Baez, the highlights I've seen of Guerrero hitting balls that bounce in front of the plate resulted in singles, not doubles.
Vladdy says hi.
That swing reminds me a lot of that Alfonso Soriano kid. I MISS THAT KID! 😭
That's exactly who Baez reminds me of with that swing but Soriano even being a free swinger still put up power numbers and a respectable batting average.
He should pull a Michael Jordan but switch to basketball. He might make the Pistons better.
Lol 😂
You do realize MJ sucked at baseball, don't you? Terrible example to use.
@@unkledoda420 Nah it makes sense. With how ass the pistons are Baez might actually be helping them, even if he sucks like Jordan. It isn’t a terrible example.
@@unkledoda420 Concept, not example.
Why does this actually sound like a good idea, lol
His biggest issue is he swings through the ball. Hes trying to destroy every pitch thrown at him instead of getting power through contact.
My favorite Moneyball (film) quote: "If he's a good hitter, why doesn't he hit good?"
Basically Javey is now Orioles Chris Davis in a costume
not as bad and his contract ends in like 3 years only thank god lmao
He reminds me of me in MLB 9 innings, I always go for the first pitch, even if it’s outside the strike zone
You beat me to this comment. I do this in mlb the show
@@antbojo 💯
Pitchers realized that they didn't ever have to throw Baez a strike and he never adjusted. I'm actually surprised Detroit hasn't bought out his contract. He's actively hurting a competitive team.
the swing on the intro always has me cracking up man
Even back when he was on the Cubs, i knew he was a trainwreck waiting to happen. Too undisciplined in every facet of the game. Wants to be the hero.
don't forget in 2018 out in Milwaukee when Baez destroyed an entire clubhouse sink with a baseball bat bc the Cubs lost a ballgame. sadly we still haven't seen the worst of Javier Baez. don't be surprised if he ends up in prison
@@marcuswilliams7512wtf is this comment 2018 was 6 years ago and we have seen ppl break things bc there team lost a game its completely normal
@@Victor-jm3eh buffoon said it's completely normal for a professional athlete to destroy an entire sink with a baseball bat bc his team lost a game. i see the clowns are out today
Still have my Baez cubs jersey
I miss the prime Baez he was so good and I loved him in a cubs fan I remember the World Series I was at the house watching it
I remember seeing you there. What's up? How've you been?
@@dennisdezarn5895I’ve been ok thanks! How are you, DeWayne and the ferrets doing? I’d imagine pretty well after collecting Margaret’s life insurance huh haha
@@Smidey_65. Baez was never “so good.”
Baez was a product of the special ball first introduced in 2016, and over modified from 2019-2021. 2022 they changed the ball again it was deader. So I think some of his success came from that. As for his stint in NYC, as a Puerto Rican, I’m sure it helped given how many of us live in NYC, plus Lindor playing with him probably lifted his spirit, contending may have also helped. I think he def would have been a worse hitter given the ball, but overall probably league average had he stayed in NYC. And as a Mets fan as well, I’m sorry to say I’m glad they didn’t resign him then and now
Coming from a Tigers fan. We hate him.
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We don’t hate him Mabey the injury he had changed somthing
And at least he’s better than Ryan kriedler
This is me when I play mlb the show
i would give this video a thumbs up, but baez would probably swing at my cursor moving across the screen.
never noticed this in footage before but it looks like baez changes the grip on his follow through on different swings. hes the first hitter ive seen use a one handed and two handed followthrough like that. most guys stick to picking one or the other.
My opinion is that he is going blind. At least he has a bright future as an umpire.
It was easy to find him good on the cubs because rizzo, Bryant, zorbrist and fowler never struck out. You can hide the ks when the other hitters give you such great at bats.
Don’t forget his base running errors- not realizing how many outs there are and getting doubled up
I watched biography on Greg Maddox, most MLB players sit on pitches, so it’s easier to get a strikeout. But, once hitters hit 35, it’s hard to catch up to pitches. Meaning, he has to choose his pitch when he goes to bat.
He misses Lindor. 💔💔
He’s always swing at everything. He was able to make it work. But problem is as soon as that bat speed drops just a tad now he can’t make up for bad plate discipline
This is my least favorite player in Tigers history. Yeah he sucks, and even worse he doesn’t care. He’s on his own program, doesn’t listen to anybody. Doesn’t make adjustments, same approach every at bat. Tigers just DFA him and cut our losses.
It’s arrogance is what it is. The guy wants to hit everything and is willing to go down swinging(literally) to do so.
we all gonna mention he decided to go to the park where all hitters go and suck? Comerica Park? LOL.
Look at how Nick Castellanos left Detroit and immediately played the best baseball of his career.
@@ashwinranji8790. Nasty Nick was solid in the D.
javy struck out at a higher rate with the cubs than he ever has with the tigers, (his past few seasons have the lowest K% of his career) and he doesn't chase as much for the tigers either. the issue is that with the cubs he managed to have an elite barrel rate despite chasing so much. he could barrel literally anything, and he played like it. but now? he doesn't play with the same confidence. he's found himself in a middle ground where he doesn't chase as much, but lost his ability to barrel the ball and punish hittable pitches. the issue isn't that he swings at everything, the problem is that he lost confidence in his ability to hit any pitch thrown at him.
As a Tigers fan he’s been frustrating. I don’t hold the ire that many others do because I’ve seen when he’s clicking and that Javy is impressive. There is a delay right now on any possible upswing for him however as he just went on the IL. Apparently according to manager AJ Hinch on a radio interview just after his stint started he said that have had been dealing with chronic back pain for 2 years and it just finally became unbearable. I could lean conspiracy and think they’re getting ready to drop him, or I can look at this break for him as a potential blessing. (For the record I thought he looked a little stiff on fielding play right before this designation so I think this is a legit injury) hopefully the time off allows him to heal his body and mind and he comes back on fire. Frankly I hope both him and Torkelson both break out of their struggles because when those guys are right they’re fun to watch.
As a baseball fan I agree
If those guys start clicking… that will be a dangerous Tigers team. Coming from a Mariners fan.
I agree, it's so frustrating because they both could be great players but we just watch them struggle game after game.
I would say this makes sense, but swinging full force 100% effort at pitches 2 feet outside the zone does not happen cause of a back injury 😂
I’m confident personally that Tork is getting back on track in Toledo. Javy I’m not as certain with.
He has a homer in back to back days lol
He isn't intentionally swinging at balls, he probably just can't pick up the spin (anymore).
When a guy has a SIX-TO-ONE career strikeouts to walk ration, NO ONE IS GOING TO THROW HIM A STRIKE.
Side topic, was playing rec room baseball and someone started swinging at everything. 15 people including me started chanting “Take a pitch, stupid b!” and “Let’s go Baez, let’s go!”
He has so much movement in his load. If he cut down on chasing out of the zone and quieted his hands before swinging, he would be much better off
Baez is a real life version of my RTTS player
Before the video even got to how long his swing was I was thinking to myself "Damn, his swing is long af". If he could adjust his mechanics to have a more compact swing along with keeping his bat speed, he'd be in a better spot. Instead he just keeps going up there and daddy hacking
He's always been a great fielder with good home run power who refuses to adjust his approach, hence, his failures now. You can only skate by on talent for so long. He got the bag though.
Does he need glasses?! Only half joking, a vision problem could explain why he makes so many seemingly clueless swings
Man…I forget the play…but there was a CB for the Redskins that couldn’t catch an interception to save his life. He ended up going to the chargers, where a coach had him get his vision checked on a whim. One laser eye surgery later and he was near the top of the league in interceptions.
So you never know.
I have to believe teams give their players regular eye exams to head off potential issues, since vision is the most important thing for a hitter. But if it's just a basic vision test, it might not pick up more subtle problems like with spatial acuity. But something is obviously wrong with him, physical or mental.
This contract, although not a huge contract, it will end up, think being one of the absolute worst contracts ever that the tigers have signed since juan gonzalez. The tigers will have a hard time trading him, who would want him? the houston astros ran into a similar problem with abreu, they payed him 30 million dollars to go away, they got nothing for him.
As a tigers fan there’s no doubt he saw our offer said yes and was like I guess I’ll play for Detroit for my summertime. He does not care about hitting 😂😂😂 it’s fckn wild.
Javier baez is the type of guy that will listen to the "swing!"noise in MLB the show.
im sure this video just shows some of his worst swings but his head just goes all the way to left field line. That's literally the number one thing they tell you not to do becaue it shows you are just trying to hit homeruns and pull the ball.
Tigers need to DFA Javy. They are literally better without him there.
This video is a peek into Bo Bichette's future.
They should rename him Christopher Morel.
This is me in MLB the show...
As a Tigers fan….. never mind 😡😤
This guy is such a huge drag on our budget here in Detroit, can't stand this guy.....
He should take ever pitch until he gets 2 strikes. He would walk 50% of the time
supposedly that's what Trout did all through the minor leagues
Baez could be so good still. His batting average when there are RISP is nearly .400. That just shows he still can get hits if he wants to focus
Great video must’ve taken awhile to put all those Baez swings in this video
Actually, hard to believe as it may be, Javy’s issue is that he’s not swinging ENOUGH. For how bad he is, he has over a .300 batting average with RISP this year as well as last year. Javy has actually been swinging less every year since he’s been in Detroit. Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press did some statistical research and found that Javy’s swing % with RISP is just as high if not higher than it was pre-2022. Detroit’s coaches have tried to make javy more selective because he’s such a free swinger, but being selective was never what made him so good. He’s always had terrible pitch recognition, but swinging at everything lead to more hits regardless of how much he struck out. He is too conscious of his approach. He is too in his head. Evan Petzold told him this in an interview and Javy said he was not aware of those statistics but that it was interesting to him. I blame the Tigers hitting coaches.
Yea it’s totally the hitting coaches fault 🤡
Seems like he playing poorly because he doesn't care, and maybe he doesn't care because he's unhappy. Last time I seen him happy was with the Mets with Lindoor and with team PR. shrug who knows for sure.
I think MTC just fixed Javier Baez’ career
"I paid for the full at bat"
"Imma swing during the whole at bat"
He got the bag. That's what happened.
Even after hearing his early career stats, he didn't sound that impressive... wtf is baseball on to give him a massive deal
Does Baez smile because he hits well or does he hit well because he's smiling? why not go up there there with a forced smile on his face? what could it hurt? nothing else seems to be working.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
-Wayne Gretzky
He's no where near as muscular as he was in Chi. Figure it out .
I LOVE IT!! Baez is my most hated player ever. Such a cocky punk. Anyone who didn’t foresee this is a fool!
That first swing is still one of the worst attempts at contact I have EVER seen
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. - Warren Spahn
Im a cubs fan and i remember saying “if we only keep one (bryant, rizzo, or baez), i want them to keep baez.” Glad im not making decisions lol
for me it was Bryant😂
I remember Ichiro getting a hit off the ball that bounced in the dirt
As a Mets fan who wanted to resign him, my god we dodged a bullet (and now I feel dumb) 😂
Tigers only owe him 75 million after 2024. This will be ok. I'm sure he's very motivated to figure it out!
I was down town and bumped into Biaz and spilled his drink on him he asked if i wanted to go and he swung at me a struckout
He swings with his ego.
He swings like there’s a strikeout quota he needs to hit in order to earn his full salary
Pure genius
@@steviehandsome4712 no.
Javier Baez wipes the smile off my face every time he comes up to bat. I could be watching the Tigers blow out another team (not common), and as soon as he steps up to bat, I start looking at my phone and stop watching. Ruining my team. Another reason why Chris Ilitch will never see the gates of heaven.
He's just another example of why contracts should be INCENTIVE based
Im not even joking, it’s because he’s genuinely high at the plate
Pretty Baezed about it.
At this point, the Cubs should grab him at a cheap price and let him rebuild himself in AAA
Well this also explains to me what is going on with julio Rodriguez right now
2:43 “doesn’t strike out much” um, are we watching the same games?
I finally caved and released him off my dynasty keeper league. If was much overdue but still a tough double click of the mouse that day. RIP to the waivers…..
If a player has a negative WAR, but is not replaced, then is the stat correct?
The Scott Harris Methodology doesn't seem to be helping him either, as yes, hes striking out less, but hes making weaker contact than ever before. He lets the first pitch go, and as a free swinger, sometimes thats the best pitch you see, so no he falls behind in the count, the pitcher gets in his head and it's all over.
Man everyone thought back in the 2021 offseason thought that Correa to Detroit was gonna happen and instead get jabroni baez
All of his early success had to do with his top of the league ability to make good contact on balls out of the zone due to extremely good plate coverage and top bat speed. Bat speed drops with age and has to be compensated with discipline and getting pitches in hot zones, throw in the fact that pitchers throw measurably harder in 2024 than in 2015 and it is a recipe for disaster.
While the Cubs haven't done anything of late, they also weren't wrong. Since dumping Rizzo, Baez, and Bryant, none of them have done anything.
That 1st pitch he was off by 99feet, wtf
Some guys get the big contract and lose all focus and desire.
He always had this issue even before the big contract. Those elite run production numbers he put up with the 2021 Mets look like an outlier sadly.
he was infuriating the last couple years on the cubs and i was so happy when he was no longer on the team
Twins fans approves him for staying in Detroit for an extended period of time
Find someone who loves you as much as Javi likes swinging at high fastballs and sliders 2 feet off the plate
His arrogance ruined his career! I can’t stand him!!!
He should have stayed with the Mets if it was an option cause his numbers then were actually really good
Man he was so exciting as a cub early on. Terrible to see this.
I think at least part of the problem is that because he's playing g half his games at cavernous Comerica Park, he's overcompensating to swing further for the fences. At least that's my takeaway.
Can a DH hit for a shortstop while the pitcher still bats?
Could the Tigers send him down to AAA to work on how to hit a ball?
If the Tigers trade Baez he will hit 250 and play good defense with his new team. I think a lot of his issues are the Tigers
So THIS is what Vladimir Guerrero Sr. would have looked like if he sucked…:/
Yeah. Pretty much
He got paid and chilling now just like Kris Bryant.They got their ring from the cubs and they been paid by their current teams!
no...... The Tigers don't have an adequate hitting coach ..... That's why Baez average has dropped - that's why Torkelson was sent to the minors - that's why it's taken Colt Keith so long to get up to speed ... that's why Baddoo's average has dropped off .... that's why the Meadows brothers career ended...That's why both Tiger catchers are hitting a paltry .220..... That's why the team average is .232...... Hinch is a LOUSY manager and his staff is even worse.