What's Our Organizational Hitting Philosophy?
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 08:43 AM
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 08:45 AM
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 09:48 AM
Haven't heard jack about him this season though...
"We want a structure (in the Orioles minors) where, from the Dominican and rookie ball through Triple-A, we have the same philosophy and hitting terminology and the same drills. We want to all be on the same page so when a player moves from one affiliate to another they will be doing the same drills with the same terminology," Boulanger said.
The Orioles minor league players will become familiar with the term "productive team plate appearance." Boulanger tracked them in Texas to encourage the hitters to have productive at-bats that always are geared to help the team.
http://www.masnsport... ... -bats.html"We've found that winning teams average 17 or more productive team plate appearances per game. That can be an eight-pitch at bat or just moving a runner up. It could be a base hit, a walk or a sac bunt. When you start getting the whole club to buy into it, and you get 17 of those, your winning percentage is like 78 percent."
"PTPAs is something we will introduce in the minor leagues. It is something we can track and come up with at the end of the night. Think about it, with nine guys hitting, I want the team to have 17 so just about every hitter needs to get two. If the whole team buys into it and you get 17 a night, your winning percentage goes up.
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 09:53 AM
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Posted 29 July 2012 - 11:49 AM
I'm glad that we have Boulanger though - a solid approach across all levels that players will remember and know isn't changing from level to level will go a long way in providing us with some much needed offense in a few years when those players trickle up.
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