Reply to "What % of high school baseball players can hit home runs?"

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Can and do are two different topics. We have many in our HS that can, but either were never given the opportunity in live games or if they were given the opportunity, they never produced in the games. Great practice hitters when they know what's coming and can't touch a ball from an opponents pitcher. I'm sure you have seen this somewhere. We had two like that last year. What was seen as one of the Greatest coaching moves every was when one starting player was replaced with a live game hitter for the remainder of the season (after 6 games of strike outs). The second player remained through out the season, missing most everything - really struggled, which always leads to second guessing the coaching staff (one of which was this players older brother and the hitting coach).

10/9/1712:17 PM

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