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I even crammed reading Hardball Talk/FanGraphs for an hour on the Metro North train from Fairfield, CT, where I had left my car, Saturday morning.Interestingly, my obsessive studying of the WAR leader board on the train—somewhere between Stamford and the Harlem stop—provided all the inspiration needed to write again. It was the surprisingly high ranking of one player, really, that triggered a desire to investigate replica Gucci YA109520 Ladie's watch further and get some thoughts down on . That player is San Francisco Giants outfielder Andres Torres. Until seeing Torres' name on the WAR leader board, I had not given any thought to him all season. His excellent to date performance had been completely lost on me up until my last minute iPhone research.

There he was, though, boasting just fewer than five wins above a replacement level player. His presence was eye opening, and, hoping to learn more, I of course clicked on his name to see if there were any recent articles written by a FanGraphs author detailing Torres’ surge. Figured there would be, likely from a RotoGraphs writer, given the likely demand for information about his future fantasy value.Sure enough, the talented Matt Klaassen replica Gucci YA105510 Ladie's watch had delivered with a recent piece, entitled The NL’s Second Best Outfielder, dated July 26. Klaasen, who was unfortunately not in attendance for the FanGraphs Live event, began his article with a sarcastic first paragraph in which he illustrated how unlikely of a scenario it was that Torres ranked second, behind Matt Holliday, among National League outfielders in WAR.

Klaassen: I suppose it was predictable. If anyone had asked before the season, “who will be two most valuable outfielders in the National League the week of the trade deadline?” I think most analysts would have agreed on two names: Matt Holliday and Andres Torres. Why even look at the leaderboard? But replica Gucci 18565 Men's watch seriously: Andres Torres? Klaassen then went into a full analysis of Torres’ strong 2009 campaign and excellent 2010 performance. As I expected to read, he warned readers about a likely significant regression, concluding that he would rather trust the projection systems than a small sample size of data for a 32 year old outfielder having a career year.

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The Rudy Jaramillo effect gets blown out of proportion at the major league level, and obviously, if teams felt hitting coaches made that much of a difference, it would be reflected in their wages. But that does not mean guys like Cevallos and O’Leary do not make a huge difference in individual players and could have similar effects on replica Gucci YA102505 Ladie's watch other hitters’ careers.Note: I used to write about baseball a lot. This season, though, I have but two Post s to my name. Thankfully, P Addy McMahon, the best free agent acquisition of the offseason, has carried the site. I want to change that fact. For a while there, life got in the way and I simply had no extra time to write about baseball/sports outside of my day job.

My attendance was so poor on one of my weekly radio hits, in fact, that I was essentially designated for assignment from the show. Which was tough to swallow. After attending the FanGraphs Live Event (promise a brief recap of my experience) in Manhattan Saturday, however, it dawned on me how much I miss writing about baseball. So, from here on out, I do not plan on being such a stranger at Around the Majors.As mentioned in my replica Gucci YA086309 Men's watch note above, I made the trip down from Boston to New York City to attend FanGraphs Live. Since I am always looking for an excuse to head down to the city, it was a no brain decision to purchase a ticket online, make plans with a buddy and head down for a weekend.

I am glad that I did so. For some reason, I really felt the need, subconsciously, to prepare like a college student studying for finals before attending. If the situation arose, I wanted to be able to answer any baseball related question off the top of my replica Gucci 103 Series Horsebit Ladie's watch head, prompting me to read every FanGraphs article from the past few weeks and study the WAR leader board. Perhaps out of insecurity for not following baseball quite as closely as I have in the past few seasons, I really made an effort to be on the ball in that regard.

He is still getting on base and playing fine defense

He is still getting on base and playing fine defense, but his slugging is down just under 200 points, at .373, and if anything the power outage points to the fact that perhaps Torres could fall off as well. Indeed, perhaps the hitting instructor theory does not hold as much clout as originally expected and Zobrist’s previous two seasons were a fluke.Either way, Zobrist will likely never come close to hitting 27 homers again. However, this replica Gucci YA111402 watch season aside, he probably has more power than he has shown and will improve going forward. And, he is still driving the ball more than was expected of him after being traded from the Houston Astros back in 2006.Another Cevallos protégé, Drew Sutton, has also struggled this season.

Sutton, recently claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Indians, has hit just .259/.365/.361 with only three home runs combined across two organizations in the majors in 323 plate appearances Since he himself had shown some improved pop in the minors in ’08 after working with Cevallos, many, including Rancel, felt that the Houston Astros were replica Gucci YA086314 Men's watch foolish to part with him and that he too could breakout. It has yet to happen. Nonetheless, Sutton is worth watching as he goes to Cleveland, and entering his age 28 season, could surprise some if given the chance to play everyday for the Indians coming out of spring training. With the Cevallos tie in, I know that I will definitely be following him closely.

I guess the overall point, though, is that some times factors that are impossible to account for—in this case hitting instructors, new hitting styles—can truly aid a player and improve their talent level. Granted, the sample size of hitting instructor examples is too small, three, to draw any major conclusions. But the cases of Torres and Zobrist show that it can happen in individual instances; each player is worth following extra closely as a result. At the replica Gucci YA107503 watch least, it is one more factor to consider when projecting future performances. And, if Sutton emerges in Cleveland, Torres continues to rake and Zobrist starts swatting long balls again soon, perhaps it is time for teams to start investing in these types of hitting instructor gurus.

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But that was just the beginning for Zobrist, who famously led the majors in WAR last season while batting .297/.405/.543 with 27 home runs and a 146 OPS+.In late April ‘09, long before anybody could have expect Zobrist to blast damn near 30 homers, Rancel appeared to have found one of the most logical explanations for the turnaround: Cevallos, the self anointed swing guru and current sponsor to Zobrist’s Baseball Reference page. replica Gucci YA100506 Ladie's watch Rancel: From there, Cevallos gathered the information needed and went to work. “I took the video home to analyze and we met again a few days later” he said. “I broke down their swing the way I do. They had never seen anything like it. I gave their swings a rating and showed them how they can improve the number.” That rating is called CIR or Cevallos Impact Rating. “The swing rating scale measures how consistent and powerful a player is” Cevallos explains.

“With the right mechanics, you will increase power and consistency at the same time. They really compliment each other, but the misconception has been that you sacrifice one for the other.” Initially, Zobrist scored a 287 on the CIR scale. As you can see Zobrist's power was that of a middle infielder, no surprises there. At first, Cevallos replica Gucci 112 Twirl Rotating Ladie's watch mentions Zobrist was a little apprehensive about changing his approach. “Ben was concerned that he would not be conforming to what the hitting coaches wanted him to be, which was a “spray” hitter, a situational hitter I believe he called it, a guy that is supposed to move guys around the bases and sacrifice himself. I told him that he could be a power hitter AND increase his consistency.

He didn't have to settle for that role, I told him, he could have his cake and eat it too.” To me that sounds very similar to the change Joe M Addon talked about when Zobrist was told to stop being a singles hitter and “swing harder”.It was an interesting replica Gucci YA101306Men's watch interview, and one which seemed to shed new light on how Zobrist changed his stroke. In an email to me, he even gave Cevallos nice credit for his sudden offensive stardom. Obviously, the Rays’ versatile star has not replicated anywhere near that kind of power output this season. He has just six homers, the first of which did not come until months into the spring.

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