David Wright could be in for a massive slump..
Well we all know the quote "A hit a day keeps the doctor away" and that was basically what David Wright was doing up to the other night. Wright looks horrible at the plate probably the worst he's ever looked in his career. But because Wright has been getting his 1 hit a night sometimes 2 in the 9th inning with no one one Wright's average kept rising and it was fine. But now without Wright getting a hit for 2 nights you can see how bad he looks at the plate. Call it the homerun derby curse, or just say pitchers have finally caught on to him but Wright is looking horrible at the plate.
Wright right now is hitting .290 with 0 homeruns and 4 RBI's. He's got 4 extra base hits all season not very good. Now it seems simple what pitchers are doing with Wright here's what I see.
Pitch One: Fastball right down the middle Wright never swings first pitch 0-1
Pitch Two: Wright gets beat somewhere and fouls it off 0-2
Pitch Three: out of the strike zone Wright takes 1-2
Pitch Four: Out of the strike zone Wright takes 2-2
Pitch Five: Slider outside corner maybe a bit outside Wright looks foolish STRIKE 3.
It keeps on happening and nothing David Wright is doing seems like he's trying to change it. Right now it seems Wright is trying to pull everything and must think pitchers are going to come inside on him.
Wright needs to do something different, maybe move a little closer to the plate to hit the outside pitch, maybe use a lighter/heavier bat, maybe change his batting stance. Something he's doing isn't working and it needs to be fixed before he goes into a massive slump.
Last year prior to the all-star break Wright was taking that slider outside and hitting it the opposite field with power. After the homerun derby Wright developed a slight upercut and now can't hit that pitch.
Wright is also getting beat on fastballs no matter the speed which is why he might want to go to a lighter bat. Wright needs to approach hitting right now like SHAWN GREEN. YES SHAWN GREEN the guy I said is horrible, and should not be the starting right fielder. But Shawn Green has a great approach right now that has led to him hitting .311 with 2 homeruns and 9 RBI. So far this season when any pitcher attempts to go outside on Shawn Green, Green looks to go to the opposite field and hits it that way.
Wright is a good hard working kid, and I really don't believe that all this "Success" has gone to his head because you can tell whats wrong with him. I say let Keith Hernandez go to him during a batting practice and lets see what happens. I'm not a big fan in Rick Down and thought Howard Johnson would do a good job helping when batters get into slumps.
Extra Thought~~
Last year Delgado looked horrible at the plate, and Keith Hernandez kept saying when a hitter like him goes into a slump sooner or later their going to break out in a big way. Maybe we just have to wait and sooner or later Wright will break out. But will he ever be the same player he was in the first half of 06?
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3 comments:
As you were commenting on mine I was completing a post on Wright as well. Here's some more thoughts, IMO; He's pressing at the plate so he's swinging at balls outside that normally he'd take and looks sloppy swinging at them. Also he's very vunerable to the inside pitch and pitchers are pitching him in( two games in a row HBP). So to counter he's opening up to get that pitch, which has thrown off his mechanics. I've seen strike one outside corner, strike two fouled on an outside ball, inside ball, fouled inside ball that opens him up because hes protecting against that inside called strike three, once open flailing strike out on an outside ball.
Agreed but that uppercut is hurting his ability to hit that outside pitch
agreed the upper cut comes from opening up on that inside pitch that they were getting a called strike three everytime on. Most of those ugly outside swings are balls that he never would have swung on but hes really pressing. Hojo needs to get him in the cage.
thanks for the coments on my site I'll cont. here as well.
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