What Constitutes a Hitting Slump?
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What constitutes a slump?
When the answer is hitting poorly for 10 ABs. Does that mean hitting poorly or not getting as many hits as you might like? You can have 7 out of 10 quality ABs and be 1 for 10. So, when you ask hitting poorly, I take it as you had poor ABs 10 times. Thats a slump and needs addressing. When I see players slumping, they usually have abandoned the yes, yes, yes approach and are batting defensively. Example: Count is 3 and 1. Player is thinking, I don't want to swing at ball 4 (should be thinking 3 and 1, I going to smoke this one) then player indecisively frails at the ball down the middle with an all-arm swing and hits a weak grounder to the 2nd baseman. Slumps are usually mental.
When the answer is hitting poorly for 10 ABs. Does that mean hitting poorly or not getting as many hits as you might like? You can have 7 out of 10 quality ABs and be 1 for 10. So, when you ask hitting poorly, I take it as you had poor ABs 10 times. Thats a slump and needs addressing. When I see players slumping, they usually have abandoned the yes, yes, yes approach and are batting defensively. Example: Count is 3 and 1. Player is thinking, I don't want to swing at ball 4 (should be thinking 3 and 1, I going to smoke this one) then player indecisively frails at the ball down the middle with an all-arm swing and hits a weak grounder to the 2nd baseman. Slumps are usually mental.
I just noticed you have "not measured in ABs." I would probably choose that one.
Yeah, my DD isn't batting well in the early start of middle school ball based on BA, but she's smoked the ball right to players almost every time. Certainly not a slump, and certainly nothing we're concerned about. Personally a 10 AB stretch isn't much. That can be 3 games, half of a Saturday tournament.
How do we define "slump"?
I think of a slump as poor performance not attributed to an obvious cause. No huge mechanical issue has cropped up. No change in opponent talent level (in the macro). Not a bunch of bad luck on rockets (so you can't only look at recent results).
I'm not sure you can measure it in ABs, though you can probably retroactively look at recent ABs to see how long the slump has lasted.
I think of a slump as poor performance not attributed to an obvious cause. No huge mechanical issue has cropped up. No change in opponent talent level (in the macro). Not a bunch of bad luck on rockets (so you can't only look at recent results).
I'm not sure you can measure it in ABs, though you can probably retroactively look at recent ABs to see how long the slump has lasted.
I think game changer has QB. Not sure what goes into it.
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