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Justin Willard

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402 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

And it did.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

And it showed up.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

But the success he saw kind of halfway through last year in AAA and then even the big leagues, a lot of it was just derived off of pure like power coming at you.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Like, let's go.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

That's a pretty good place to start.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

That ghost fork is absolutely disgusting.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Yeah.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

It's how do you build out the arsenal?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

How do you get to advantage counts?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

How do you do these, these, these things to put you in advantageous positions to maximize your superpower?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Yeah.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Again, you go back to Tully.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

We know his fastball is his superpower, but big league hitters can eliminate that superpower.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

You have to use the rest of the arsenal to get back to it.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Kyle Harrison was a perfect example when we acquired him from San Francisco.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

It was like, Kyle, your superpower is your fastball.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Anything we do is not going to affect your superpower, but it's to maximize your ability to get back to your superpower.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

Yeah, it's really just understanding the person in front of you.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

There are some people that are very accepting of a bunch of ideas and can cognitively handle that information.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
A Sit-Down With New Mets Pitching Coach Justin Willard

There's other guys, you got to slow drip it to them because they maybe haven't been in a development environment similar to what we've had both with the Red Sox and the Twins and now the Mets where we expect you to continue to work on things and get better and improve and you're not just going to stay stagnant.