Votto ranking among first basemen

[*bengalfan74*]

(09-13-2019, 04:07 AM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: He started it last year in Spring Training. He said that he was adjusting to pitchers pitching him inside and then apparently he lost his ability to drive the ball to left center. He always had an opposite field launch swing and after his almost MVP season, he Votto'd out and overthought everything instead of just replicating what he was doing.

In my 50 plus years of watching baseball, I've never seen anyone cocking their arm like Joe Morgan just before the pirch was delivered and I've never seen anybody practice swing at a constant check swing. Cocking his arm didn't change the way Morgan hit, practicing the check swing has completely changed a recent MVP candidate.

I'm no manager, hitting coach, baseball analyst, or psychiatrist but I believe the only chance JV has is for somebody to get into his head and convince him he has stop all the overanalyzing every tiny bit of minutia that goes into hitting.

Go up there Joey, see the ball...hit the ball.....that's it.

I doubt at this point in his career that's possible but we can hope.