Ryan Lefevre

unless you're Bobby Wood Jr.

and you do something every single night that appears to be amazing.

But it's funny, you know, the longer I watch the game, I come up with all these different definitions of like, what makes a good hitter?

You know, does he, does he have power?

Does he have a high average?

Can he hit the ball to all fields?

Is he always ready for his pitch?

And you know, the percentage of times that he fouls his pitch away as opposed to hitting it hard.

And I,

I come to these different conclusions just by watching guys that are good and guys that aren't so good, or they have these little flashes here or there, and then they go two weeks and they don't really do anything.

And the one that I'm really recognizing now is the good hitters come to the plate.

They recognize what the pitcher is trying to do to them.

And they, they take what the pitcher is trying to do and they try and make something of that.

Can I move a runner with this guy with what I'm doing right now?

Can I get a fly ball with what he's doing to me right now?

What can I do with how he's pitching me?

And if he makes a mistake, hopefully I'm ready for it.

But there's been this era of hitting that we're finally getting out of, thankfully, and that is...

Well, look, this worked for me in college.

This worked for me in the minor leagues.