Happy Birthday Tony Batista, a player who had me missing a lot of very hittable pitches because I tried to copy his weird stance at the plate.
Batista had one of the stranger batting stances you will ever see. He waited for the pitch in an extremely open stance. Tony stood facing the pitcher, then stepped forward towards the plate with his lead foot as he started his swing. Batista swung hard, and he didn’t worry too much about whether the ball was in the strike zone. But when he connected, the ball went a long way. I wish we had a good picture of his stance.
I’ll admit, I tried to copy his swing. First, if you are playing in a men’s fastball league, it drives the pitcher crazy that you are standing there looking at him. Then, getting the timing of the step toward the plate isn’t easy. Finally, following the pitch while your body is making a quarter turn adds another difficulty. It didn’t take long for me to return to my more Tim Wallachish stance .When we picked him up in a trade from the, he played shortstop in the middle of the 1999 season .
Tony’s 2001 season didn’t start well, he was hitting .207/.251/.399, and he was making pretty good money, so the Jays put him on the waiver wire, and the. He hit 221 home runs and drove in 718 runs with a .251/.299/.453 batting line.Here is the best video I could find of Tony’s batting stance. And it is pretty funny, as he is hit by a pitch and he scares the pitcher, who thinks he’s coming out to beat the tar out of him.
Juan was very good at hitting left-handed pitchers, and the Jays wanted him to be a DH/utility guy for that skill. He could play most of the infield spots and the corner outfield spots. So he was platooned withSamuel played three seasons for us, the last two mainly as a pinch-hitting. He hit .252/.328/.447 with 12 home runs and 27 steals in 157 games as a Jay. After the 1998 season, he retired from baseball when he hit .18/.293/.280 in 59 PA for us.
He hit .259/.315/.420 with 102 home runs in a 16-year career, playing for seven teams. He played seven seasons with the. In his rookie season, he hit .272/.307/.442 with 19 triples, and 72 steals in 737 PA. The downside was a league-leading 168 strikeouts . Nevertheless, he was the prototype ‘you don’t walk off the island’ player. Juan came in second in
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