27 yrs in professional baseball. Indians, Reds & White Sox. Hitting Coach, Hitting Coordinator & Pro Scout. Thoughts are my own.
Cleveland, OH
Joined December 2015
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Keep digging, for more understanding, in what you already know.
Keep poking holes into what you already believe.
Keep trying to understand what you disagree with.
Keep learning.
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Not gonna make it out there, but glad to share this post. Talk hitting and #KeepLearning
CHANGE OF PLANS
Yesterday I was talking with my friend Donnie Ecker, and he reminded me of the story of how we met.
It started with one thing, a simple invite.
And that invite changed the trajectory of my life.
As I’ve been praying about this Farm Retreat, that story stuck with me. God put something heavy on my heart:
This retreat was supposed to be $1,500 to attend…
But I’m inviting 12 people to come for free.
You’ll still cover your travel, food, and lodging, but if you can get here, you won’t pay us a dime for the retreat itself.
For four days, you’ll join us for the first section of our Science of Hitting curriculum in the mornings, take part in daily group activities, and shadow our team in the afternoons.
We’ll learn together. We’ll train together. We’ll grow together.
Here’s how to enter:
1. To enter: head to my Instagram (@_joeycunha) and share my post to your IG Story.
That’s it. No tagging, no extra steps.
2. Or You can retweet this post. Or shoot. Do both and double your chances of being picked. 👊🏼
By the end of next week, we’ll randomly select 12 people to join us.
12 strangers.
12 stories.
12 lives that could be changed by one invite.
Worked his tail off. 💪🏼
Colson Montgomery has 14 RBI in his last 10 games for the @whitesox! 🔥
@markdero7 breaks down the rookie's freakish bat speed, smooth lefty swing and more. #MLBCentral
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Congrats to Will Robertson, who has been named the International League Player of the Week! 👏👏👏
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All-Star Game night… This is me after warming up Randy Johnson to start the 1997 All-Star Game. 😆
I was so lucky to have that opportunity, and so lucky to have that memory. #AllStarGame
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Hitters… Incoming pitches are not “problems to solve”… They are all opportunities to take advantage of.
Be prepared to take advantage of every pitch you see.
The best pitchers will offer pitches closer to the hitter’s strength, but just out of productive reach. Trying to get the hitter to “fish” and get himself out.
Example: A hitter handles the pitch up in the zone well… so the pitcher with throw FBs up, but a little higher than the hitters “hot zone”.
Those pitches look good to that hitter, so they offer at the pitch but they don’t hit it well.
Good news is, Brian is right about pitchers making mistakes. When they make those mistakes, you must make them pay.
Three things that great coaches consistently do.
1. They always consider the player as a person first.
2. They keep the player’s best interests ahead of their own.
3. They make sure it’s all about the players and their success and growth.
If you’re reading this, be proud of yourself. The players are the reason you’re seeking out information to become a better coach.
#ABCA2024
The word “separation” in
hip/shoulder separation is extremely misleading.
I couldn’t agree more with this. ⬇️👍🏼
“If you believe the hips should go first I used to believe it too…in air time when you’re transitioning weight it does it on its own stop teaching it”🤯
If this interests you, check out the Ultimate Coaches Playbook in the link below with the foundations, level 1 hitting and pitching, and assessment playbooks all in one!
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Coaches…
“Knowing” and “Understanding” are two different things.
You can know what a hitter is doing, but understanding what they’re doing allows for a much deeper level of guidance.
The actual swing matters, when you start and when you make that swing happen matters, where your swing happens matters, the direction of your swing matters, your bat-speed matters, whether you swing or take matters, the pitches that you swing at matters, whether you make contact or not matters, the part of the bat that makes contact with the ball matters…
HOW to do all of that and how to make those things happen is up to each individual hitter to figure out. Their way may not be your way, and that’s ok.
There are many takeaways from this… my main takeaway is that this person doesn’t care a bit about how bad, silly, ugly, or ridiculous he may look through this process.
No fear of looking bad, no embarrassment. Only one goal… figuring it out. #GrowthMindset
Do you provide an environment where learning occurs and mistakes are made for growth? This is what real learning looks like. See what does not work to find what does work. #UPCBC2017 #CLA #fransboschbook #athleticskills