White Sox GM Rick Hahn
said this in today’s Tribune about Sox catcher Josh Phegley, that “it was his
first exposure to the big leagues and obviously the league adjusted to him
fairly quickly and he was unable to adjust.”
After a nice start, Phegley wound up hitting .206 with 4 homers and 22
rbi’s. He had real problems laying off of pitches that broke outside.
That was the first
adjustment Clare had to make, sliders away.
I don’t know which was harder, the 50-year old pitcher trying to throw
them or the 10-1/2 year old trying to hit them.
Talk about your shouting/scowling matches, but she learned. I think.
The next adjustment was
the rise ball; how my little high school freshman loved to go swinging after
those. By her junior year, she could
consistently foul off rise balls, at which point pitchers pretty much stopped
throwing them.
The one challenge in
college has been the change up; you can almost hear the body parts crack as
Clare tries to check her swing. Her
hitting coach, bless him, will spend close to an entire session throwing change
ups. So, now my daughter knows how to
handle those pitches, too.
There’s just one more
adjustment to go, life after softball.
That one should be interesting for the two of us.
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