Chipper Jones

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159 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Jun

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Blair & Barker · Not Wavering on the '26 Jays + Hitter's Buildup with Chipper Jones · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

He is a table clear.

He is an RBI guy.

He swings it better when he's got guys out there, you know, on the bases as opposed to, you know, leading off innings.

If you ever shook hands with him, you know.

Yeah.

I'm going to tell you something.

You better come correct when you shake his hand.

Really?

Pound for pound, he's the strongest guy on the team.

And still, you know, when you've got guys like –

Matt Olson and Austin Riley on the squad.

He swings a bigger bat than both of those guys.

So, you know, I would work on trying to shorten the left-handed swing to more mimic the right-handed swing.

But like I said, he's hitting 283, 285, something like that.

If it ain't broke, good hitting coaches don't try to fix it.

Frank Howard was one of my first hitting coaches in pro ball, and he said, whatever your weak side is, we're going to take twice as many swings from that side on a given day as your strong side.

Obviously, that's not sustainable during the course of the long season.

But if I'm facing – and it's different now than when I played because I could pretty much count on seeing a starter –

three, maybe four times in a game.

You know, now you might only get them

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