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What's changed since then?
And there usually is something, you know, and in his case, I assume there will be
continued fine tuning i know that and he told me this and it fits the profile his swing is built to do damage he's not trying to punch balls oppo you know he's trying to drive the ball into the gaps and over the fence um i did notice that the other day i don't know if he's uh went deep in the last day or two but he didn't have does not have a home run in new hampshire yet
Although you mentioned the weather earlier.
I live in the Northeast, and the weather we have had here, he has probably hit fly balls that ice crystals have formed on the baseball on the way to dying on the warning track.
But the Jays probably want him to...
make more contact.
I'm certainly a young player with power.
You know, that's always going to be an emphasis, and that let the power, you know, manifest itself as he gets more experience.
Yeah, that's crazy what he's done.
Maybe it's not crazy.
And the piece, I think, is going to go up at Fangraphs in the next hour or so.
I know my editor is poring over it, correcting all of my silly little typos and mistakes.
What I talked to Austin Martin about just a few days ago, and I talked to Derek Shelton, his current manager, about...
This process, you know, for hitters as a whole, because Derek Shelton used to be a hitting coach in the majors, you know, and a coordinator in the minors, is Austin Martin, and the Jays fans may know this too, that when he was in the minors, you know, early minors, his short time there, the Jays were saying, you know, hey, let's see if we can get a little more pole slide power and become more than, you know, the on-base machine that he was in college.
And that, you know, I guess I am spoiling the article here.
Once he got to Minnesota, it was sort of the same thing.
It's, you know, after they let him get his feet wet that half season after the trade, you know, the Rios trade.
You know, they tried to do the same thing.
You know, not really pushing, but nudging him to do that.