Ron Coomer

He's mastered it, and it just comes natural.

He is as good a hitter as you're going to find in a rookie, and I expect him to hit for power.

He's going to spray the ball around the field.

He's going to give the opposing team fits all year long.

There's no doubt.

Yeah.

Well, happy opening day.

It's becoming tradition, right?

This is becoming tradition.

Great to see you guys.

You're the best.

Well, they're trying, Bruce, to eliminate movement in a simplistic way of describing it.

You know, as we all saw last year, the high leg kick, your foot coming up off, his front foot coming way up off the ground, then hovering and then going down.

That's a very difficult way to hit as you're talking about by a sterile and being on time.

And because of that, he wasn't on time a lot.

And so he had big areas in the strike zone that pitchers could throw to and get him out fairly easily because of that.

issue the second issue he had last year was once he tried to get that foot down earlier now the foot was going down and the head was moving forward and when your head moves forward towards the pitcher that's that's just like you know open season for the pitcher to get you out when your head's moving you just can't have a lot of head movement going towards the pitcher or forward and and so he had that combination he really had to

fix that so johnny is is shut down the leg kick he hovers it a little bit but it doesn't come up off the ground and it gets down quick um and i know they're they're working hard to to eliminate that movement of his head going forward um that's an aggressive feel like you're doing something good but you're not because that movement just makes it tough to recognize pitches

It hinders the mechanics of your swing.

So that's what they're really trying to do.