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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
They all did make adjustments though. Jose, after introducing the leg kick, was a completely different player. Same goes for Donaldson, who actually emulated Jose's leg kick and found tremendous success with it. Edwin lowered his hands and switched to a slide step.
All small changes, but absolutely were adjustments that made huge impacts on their approach.
Goins is a trickier one, because there was nothing really noticeably different with him in the batter's box, aside from his improved eye. I'm a little more skeptical with him sustaining success simply due to it being reliant on a more patient approach, when he's had zero track record of that in his career.
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Yes, I guess saying making no adjustments isn't appropriate, but the point is that all of those guys had past success, and early in their MLB career (well except for Bautista but he was never given a chance until those final two years in Pittsburgh).