The Batting Average across D1 baseball on all drag bunts is .533 (Trumedia). There are A LOT of hits down the third base line.
Tyler Rost
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Tyler Rost
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Northwestern University Hitting Coach and Recruiting Coordinator | Former Cedarville Yellow Jacket and Rootstown Rover
Joined December 2010
- HIGH SCHOOL PITCHERS: you want your GPA to be higher than your ERA.
- PICKOFF DATA (D1, 2022, TruMedia) Attempts to 2B: 4,870 Runner out: 199 Errors: 252 Attempts to 3B: 251 Runner out: 8 Errors: 13
- Christmas is over and Santa Claus didn’t put playing time under anyone’s tree. The HUNGRY shark gets the chum.
- BUNT DEFENSE DATA (D1, ‘22, TruMedia) Bunts in play w/ men on 1st and 2nd: 3,022 Lead runner out at 3B: 58 (1.9%) Errors: 70 (2.3%)
- It is never a good thing if your pop time is higher than your GPA.
- He’s built like a DH, but it won’t be long until this guy is running around the bases.
- HITTING SAME SIDE BREAKING BALLS Never train hitting same side spin to the opposite field. The horiz. approach angle of the pitch makes your margin for error razor thin. RHHs vs. RH SL/CB in 2022 Balls to oppo field: .254 avg/.355 slg Balls to pull side/CF: .369 avg/.562 slg
- OUTFIELD DATA The MLB leader in OF assists last year was Tommy Pham with 15 (in 134 games). That’s about 1 every 9 games and about 6 total over a 56 game college season. Tommy Pham ranked 126th among OFers in Defensive Runs Saved. Throwing out runners is borderline irrelevant.
- Practice #1 in the books. January in Chicago never looked so good.
