Kris Bryant Article

[clemenslee1]

Interesting:

Inside Kris Bryant's Early-Season Resurgence

After remaking his iconic Launch Angle swing, Kris Bryant is back in MVP form.

www.si.com

 

[_MIA_]

Interesting:

Inside Kris Bryant's Early-Season Resurgence

After remaking his iconic Launch Angle swing, Kris Bryant is back in MVP form.

www.si.com

Did he go back to his exit velocity swing?

 

[clemenslee1]

Did he go back to his exit velocity swing?

Don't know about that, but it seems he worked with his father on launching his hands from up high in the strike zone down. With the "Feeling of swinging down" Like Dustin Pedroia, Ryan Braun, Derek Jeter and Travis d’Arnaud.

 

[_MIA_]

Don't know about that

I was being sarcastic...

 

[TDS]

I bet those guys who were bragging on trying to lift wished they would have shut there trap. Donaldson was another.

 

[TDS]

Does anyone think Bryant hasn't changed his initial hand and barrel path to accommodate pitches up in the zone "down to" ? Or was it just eliminating the crouch and standing taller ?

One of Bryant’s offseason adjustments was to bring his hands to the ball from the top of the zone. The feeling he created is one of “swinging down,” though that is more of a swing thought than a literal path. The adjustment made his swing quicker and more direct to high fastballs. It gave him the added benefit of “defining” the top line of the strike zone. Anything above his hands was a ball. Bryant took those 200 hacks a day on high pitches to create muscle memory—to regain that confidence a hitter gets from knowing where and how his hands are working.

 

[clemenslee1]

Does anyone think Bryant hasn't changed his initial hand and barrel path to accommodate pitches up in the zone "down to" ? Or was it just eliminating the crouch and standing taller ?

Maybe a bit of both?

 

[TDS]

Maybe a bit of both?

Yea, I would bet so as well, yet you still have folks denying the change and interrupt "down to" as chopping down across the ball...

 

[ANNASDAD]

Trouble with the curve!

 

[TDS]

CB, removed the loop and is now is "down to"