J.J. Cooper

This is a team I feel like that's trying to.

It just hasn't worked so far this year.

I would say it's very simple.

He has to make more, more consistent and better contact.

That's pretty much, I would say kind of almost like it, you know, it's something where I, I do worry, like he has great on base percentages.

He has great power, but I do worry when you are having this kind of contact issues in a ball,

it's only going to get tougher, right?

So at some point, there's going to have to be, I would say, some sort of adjustment to this that kind of gets him to what I would say is more consistent contact.

And even if that means sacrificing, his power is enough that, like, even if it sacrificed a little bit of power in the tradeoff, it would be okay.

He does draw tons of walks as well.

If he's a, you know, with the catching with the defense and all that,

If he can be a 230-240 hitter in the big leagues, he will be a very productive player.

But that requires right now an improvement of 30 to 40 points in batting average.

That means cutting your strikeout rate probably by 5%, 6%, 7% from what he's doing in the lower levels of the minors right now.

So that's a big adjustment and a big improvement that would have to be made to get him to that point.

If you want, I would say like if...

if we're all fans are like, okay, give me an example of guys done that.

I would say that, um, it's going back a little ways, but Matt Olson is a player who I, you know, remember when he was coming up with the A's, you know, more than a decade ago, it really was a swing that kind of was like blocks and power, but not a lot of batting average.

And then he made improvements to it.

And it's not like he ever became like a 300 hitter.