"He never cared Willson Contreras Youth Jersey about who was right," Indians president of baseball operations Chris
Antonetti said. "He cared about doing what was right for the player. And
he was exhaustive in his efforts to try to help players. I think that's
something that a lot of guys within our clubhouse and within our
organization have benefited from."
Now, Callaway has leveled up, taking charge of an organization actively
evolving its training staff, communication structures and in-game
sabermetric bent. Aaron Brooks Youth Jersey The Mets expect Callaway to juggle all of that in addition to his
duties with the media and, of course, players.He will do so armed with
slivers of knowledge from Francona and Coyle and Donovan and his father,
among so many others who shaped his path to New York.
"I paid attention to what good coaches did. I paid attention to all my
coaches and learned from their strengths and what I thought they did
really well," Callaway said. Addison Russell Youth Jersey "That's just kind of how I learned as a player, and I think it helped
better prepare me to do a job like this."In the current era of baseball,
the biggest battle between pitchers and hitters is being fought in the
air.
Hitters try to lift the ball, and pitchers try to combat the approach.
We just saw it in the World Series, during which the Astros and Dodgers
slugged a record 25 home runs. We saw it in the regular season, in which
hitters shattered the home run record and continued raising launch
angles. There was another side, of course, as MLB pitchers set their own
record for strikeouts and, according to baseball-reference.com, held
scoring to relatively the same as in seasons past, despite all the
homers.
It will become more imperative for pitchers to navigate those air balls
moving forward, as hitters are learning they can do more damage in the
air than on the ground. With that in mind, it's worth knowing which
pitchers excel at beating hitters at "their spot." lists 134 starters
who induced at least 150 air balls last season (i.e. any ball hit with a
launch angle of 10 degrees or higher), and there was one pitcher whose
name appeared at the top of the lists of best contact metrics over and
over.
