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the Giants certainly had to be pleasantly surprised and received great bang for their buck.Not that there were not concerns

For a player with his minor league track record, the Giants certainly had to be pleasantly surprised and received great bang for their buck.Not that there were not concerns, of course. Torres struck out in just under 30 percent of his plate appearances and, even though athletic players generally Post higher BABIP totals than their slower footed replica Gucci YA102506 Ladie's watch counterparts due to the ability to reach base via infield hits more frequently, a .347 mark was a minor red flag.Whatever the reason(s), though, Torres has continued to mash in a full time gig in the follow up act. Going into Monday, he boasts a line of .289/.372/.504 with 11 homers, a 129 OPS+ and .385 wOBA in 416 plate appearances. Encouragingly, his skill set appears to be solid, too. He has improved both his strikeout rate, down to 23.4 percent, and walk rate, up to 11.1%. And,

with his BABIP right around its ’09 level (.352), the speed theory could have some validity, though it of course is subject to fluctuate and is indeed likely to fall some.Better still, Torres has continued to provide excellent value on the other side replica Gucci 101502 Ladie's watch of the ball. His UZR is up to a stellar 14.1—odds are, of course, that he is not that valuable with the glove—and brings his WAR to 4.8. Four. Point. Eight. Including last season, Torres has impressively accumulated 6.8 WAR in 176 games, which is not too shabby for a player who appeared to be a journeyman, and whose career prospects were dwindling, not too long ago.

As is the luck aspect of it. For the immediate future, however, I would not be quite as pessimistic on Torres as Klaassen, strictly because the forecast systems cannot account for the new look hitting style at play in this example. Of course, he again will surely decline a bit and is unlikely to rank among WAR leaders at this point next season. San replica Gucci YA115201 Men's watch Francisco appears to have a cheap, quality outfielder on its hands, though, and he is unlikely to completely fall off of a cliff.And Torres' work with O'Leary reminded me of Ben Zobrist's work with Jaimie Cevallos a year ago, which you can read about in part two.

I knew that Andres actually was moving his swing in the right direction

I knew that Andres actually was moving his swing in the right direction with the Cubs when he went down with an injury to one of his obliques. That was a conditioning and fitness problem that indicated that he was starting to get more power from his core, but that his core wasn't properly conditioned. It made me aware of the need to make sure that people conditioned their cores as they moved to a rotational hitting based swing. …replica Gucci YA111401 watch You can see some good evidence that he took this lesson to heart on Andres Torres' Fangraphs page. His O Swing%, which is the percent of the time that he swings at pitches outside of the strike zone, is 24.1%. That is down 5 points, or 20 percent, from the 29.0% number he Post ed in 2009. Similarly, Andres' Z Swing% is up and his Swing% is down, two more things that suggest greater selectivity.

Andres does indeed seem to be doing a better job of getting a good pitch to hit. … [7] On one of the days when the Giants were in town, Andres and I were talking hitting when he called Pablo Sandoval over. The three of us then started talking about Albert Pujols' swing and how it's consistent with what Ted Williams talks about in his replica Gucci Stainless Set G Line Bangle Ladie's watch book The Science of Hitting. Now, there are other factors at play, of course, but Torres’ new outlook on hitting seems like a plausible explanation for the drastic performance improvement.

Thus, we may not know exactly what the “mean” is for a player like him, one who seriously changed thanks to a legitimate improvement in his swing. Sometimes, players simply rise to a new talent level, a new baseline, and perhaps that is happening here.As Klaassen discussed in the original article, Torres was a nice surprise for a weak replica Gucci 103 Series Horsebit Flower watch hitting San Francisco club in ’09. He slashed .270/.343/.533 with six home runs, a 124 OPS+ and .379 wOBA in 170 plate appearances. In Addition, Torres played above average defense in the outfield, Post ing an 8.2 UZR, while accumulating an impressive 2.0 WAR in just 75 games when factoring in batting, fielding and positional considerations.

It was a well constructed argument

It was a well constructed argument, and Klaassen is dead right. Torres, like most players who bust out, is almost certain to regress a great deal. The question, though, is how much we should expect him to fall back going forward, and, after reading the comments, I began to wonder if Torres’ two year production was being discounted too much. replica Gucci YA105528 Ladie's watch According to several apparent Giants fan commenters, Torres completely modified his approach to hitting prior to the 2009 season. A former track athlete with great speed, he was essentially taught how to be a slap hitter while rising through the ranks of professional baseball. It seems that teams thought it would be best for him to hit the ball on the ground, slap the ball the other way and try to get on base by putting the ball in play and best utilizing his plus speed.

He was, for all intensive purposes, an Ichiro style hitter, except nowhere near as talented at it.According to some, that was the case until Torres did some online research on how to drive the ball more and, as a result, met hitting instructor Chris O’Leary. Again, it is worth mentioning that I was not aware of any of this until clicking on the numerous links about Torres’ emergence from slap hitter to a player who drives the ball mentioned in the comments below the article.Those who feel that nothing can be learned from reading blog replica Gucci YA068507 Ladie's watch comments are clearly mistaken.The most interesting link was directed to a Post on O’Leary’s personal website, in which he writes about his experience working with Torres in the offseason prior to the 2008 offseason. Please give it a full read, but O’Leary basically lays out—including with images of his old and new swing, in .

gif form no less—how Torres changed his approach at the plate entirely. It is obviously impossible to know to what exact extent of credit O’Leary deserves, as Torres is still the one hitting, but he did help his client understand a few crucial elements to improving as a hitter.O’Leary: What I did was help Andres understand… ?What a good swing actually replica Gucci YA107512 Ladie's watch looks like.?How and why what he was taught was wrong.?How his swing differed from Albert Pujols'.Andres then made it happen. [2] Based on how Andres was able to turn his career around after (finally) learning what good hitters actually do, you have to wonder if poor hitting instruction has something to do with the phenomenon of the AAAA player.

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