I always find it so encouraging when you read stories about the coaching staff helping the players fine tune their mechanics from pitchers and batters and thereby bettering them. Drabek was quoted as saying in the off-season, despite what the coaches telll him, he was persisitent to do things his way. He admitted that by following the coaches suggestions he has improved in the off season. Hopefully this is goodnews for the Jays.
""We found out during the season I was stepping across my body quite a bit and that didn’t allow me to reach my glove-side fastball, outside to a righty, very well," Drabek said Wednesday. "That was one of the things over the off-season we talked about and I worked on it a little at home by myself.
When I got here I was working with Dane (Johnson, roving pitching coach) and (pitching coach Bruce Walton), it’s allowing me to see the plate more and control my pitches better."
Walton and Johnson, along with input from manager John Farrell, came up with the idea of the box over the winter and presented it to Drabek in January. "
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