‘Rise the tide’: How the Orioles’ new minor league hitting program built a foundation for development in unique year

[Roll Tide]

 

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What was meant to be a 2020 season in which the Orioles’ new minor league hitting program paid immediate dividends the way the pitching program had the previous year never materialized.

Fortunately for the Orioles, the dynamic group of instructors were nimble enough to implement their plan virtually and on the fly — and at the very least came out of 2020 with leaders who were bought into their methods on the field.

The alternate training site at Bowie was filled with many success stories who came up and helped the major league team, but in top prospects Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson, the camp was an opportunity to get an immersive experience in the data-driven, challenging and personal program the new hitting staff was implementing.

Their success there set the tone for the rest of the year, and the team’s newly named coordinators in Ryan Fuller (full season) and Anthony Villa (short-season) believe what was established over Zoom calls and limited in-person work can blossom into a productive and prolific hitting program.

“Having those two just tremendous kids come in, really embrace the adoption of new practice techniques and leaning into a challenge, that was huge,” said Villa, who was hired last offseason and will be a hitting coach with one of the Gulf Coast League Orioles teams, “because then when they showed up for instructional league, those guys led the charge in presenting to 30 more players, ‘Hey, this is what it means to be an Orioles hitter. This is how we go about practicing and challenging ourselves, and this is how we’re going to rise the tide.’ You can’t give those two guys enough credit.”

 

 

Interesting stuff ... Helps build optimism

 

https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-minor-league-hitting-20210201-5sy3fldozjdovkbwfzfcpli3lm-story.html

[higgybaby]

I love this kind of stuff.

 

[Tony-OH]

Really amazing to read the progress that the minor league system is making with using this cutting edge technology and thought processes. For the first time probably ever within this organization, you get the feeling that the Orioles prospects have the best information and coaching that can help maximize their potential.

I'm really excited to see them playing meaningful games and putting up numbers that will back up this process with results.

[LookinUp]

This is great. As is the pitching stuff, and the international efforts, and the use of data to identify draft prospects.

Still not sure why I'd have Elias on any kind of timetable based on how much he spends. He's building a better foundation for this org than anyone I've ever seen. 

[Frobby]

2 hours ago, Tony-OH said:

Really amazing to read the progress that the minor league system is making with using this cutting edge technology and thought processes. For the first time probably ever within this organization, you get the feeling that the Orioles prospects have the best information and coaching that can help maximize their potential.

I'm really excited to see them playing meaningful games and putting up numbers that will back up this process with results.

The processes sound great.   But the results are needed to confirm that.  

Unfortunately the article was behind a paywall so I couldn’t read it.   I guess I used up my allotment of free articles.  
 

[Roll Tide]

10 minutes ago, Frobby said:

The processes sound great.   But the results are needed to confirm that.  

Unfortunately the article was behind a paywall so I couldn’t read it.   I guess I used up my allotment of free articles.  
 

Delete Cookies Try again! I am a paying member of the Sun for the record!

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, Roll Tide said:

Delete Cookies Try again! I am a paying member of the Sun for the record!

That's why I have Edge downloaded as my backup backup browser.

[Roll Tide]

53 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

That's why I have Edge downloaded as my backup backup browser.

I also believe the work around is private viewing mode.