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Originally Posted by Ocotillo
Mike Ferrin mentioned better swing decisions as one of the factors in Davis' 2023 improvement. He does a college baseball podcast, announced the college baseball postseason for ESPN and he lives in Arizona, so I feel he had good intel.
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{shrug}
The numbers are out there. His approach is about the same as it ever was. He's simply making more contact.
Eyes can lie.
He's simply never struggled with his approach in any meaningful way. From what I can see, he was simply 'loud' with his hands and it was causing him to miss balls he shouldn't. He had something like a 20% swing/miss rate on pitches in the zone in his sophomore year. He cut that down to about 11% as a junior.
That's not really a swing decision issue - it's mechanics, IMO.