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Originally Posted by Cappy
That is Zobrist's approach, though. He didn't change anything. He's a slap hitter.
Get him to change his approach by pulling for power and I'm sure things are different.
But, I agree with you, the Jays need more guys capable of doing this. Someone in LF or CF capable of this would be gravy.
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Zobrist was on Conan the other day and explained this hit. Was interesting. First thing is, they wanted to pitch to him as the guy before him was intentionally walked. Second thing, he fell behind in the count and put himself in a bad spot. Lastly, he got a little lucky as the pitcher made a mistake and left in a place where he could hit it.
Sometimes, I don't know if it's because if it's all about capability. Zobrist got his bat on it, got a little lucky, and also because he's a decent hitter. Stuff like that can go either way in baseball. The Jays have/had a murderer's row of hitters where things lined up great in the first round but just didn't go their way in the second round. Cleveland pitchers barely made mistakes.