Comments on: Daily Farm Report 11/15/08

By: UncleBuck44

UncleBuck44 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:46:46 +0000

Clark I’m with you. I thought Greene had great balance in most of his swings and overall he didn’t look terrible.
One thing that might help him cut down on swings and misses is if he moved the positioning of his hands. The first thing he does with his hands is move them down and then back. He might be better off starting a little lower and farther back and just taking his hands straight to the ball.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:55:41 +0000

My favorite part of watching the pitching videos was the occasional glimpse of The Walrus in the background. That said, I think any of these guys could be moved to the pen and break out, and be put on a fast track to St. Louis. And does anyone else see a little of Braden Looper in Furnish?

By: Clark

Clark — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:54:20 +0000

I really do not see the roughness with Greene everyone is talking about. His home run swing looks the same as the other ones, he took two good cuts then with 2 strikes they were just good pitches that he looked like he was just trying to foul off. Even Albert looks rough with two strikes.

By: haltz

haltz — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:36:43 +0000

His HR swing looked fine obviously, but everything breaks down when you don’t recognize pitches at all. That was discouraging, but not incredibly surprising.

By: nomar34

nomar34 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:43:23 +0000

I’m no expert, I just play one on the Interwebs but Greene’s hands looked badly detached from his body on his swings. The last swing looked better but this is causing him to swing with his arms instead of his core.

Wallace looked like he didn’t get his hips all the way through which could be caused by it being an outside pitch but it his hard to tell from that angle but he never got up on top his back foot. He is also leaning back toward the catcher a tad but that also could be because it might be an outside pitch.

I would love to see Hill’s swing…Pitchers are boring…

By: VolsnCards5

VolsnCards5 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:32:51 +0000

Greene’s homerun swing was nice…unfortunately there were 5 swings on that video, and only one looked like a major leaguer

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:59:47 +0000

Furnish seemed to be all arm, with his body following sometime later. Would this lead to arm problems?
Wallace looked great. He keeps his weight back well, like Albert.
Greene seemed to fall forward on his bad swings, kept shoulders over this hips well on HR.
Of course, I may be wrong.

By: azruavatar

azruavatar — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:51:23 +0000

Furnish’s planting knee must kill him by the time the season is out. It’s all twist and torque on that knee. I don’t see the hitch in his delivery from the first time I saw him in 2007 though, which is good.