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Some hitters need to be more angry and have some fire. Some hitters need to be more relaxed and chill. Not everyone has to be the same, but no matter what, everyone has to compete the best way they know how! #BaseballTruth

🚨 Clint Hurdle’s Advice to Young Hitters • Work to keep your shoulders level or angled down at foot strike. ⭐️ Balance & body control are vital to consistent contact.

Hitters: ✔️You can do everything perfect ✔️You can crush it as hard as you possibly can ✔️You can adjust perfectly to a nasty off-speed pitch ✔️You can win the the battle … AND STILL GET NEGATIVE RESULTS!!! Welcome to hitting. where you can beat the pitcher, the pitcher knows you beat him, the pitcher’s team knows you beat him… …BUT YOU STILL GET OUT!!! Keep your head up, keep competing and keep finding barrels, whatever happens after that is out of your control!! #BaseballTruth

3rd base coach: “Let’s go! Get a good pitch to hit!” 1st base coach: “Let the ball travel!” Dad: “Remember to keep your weight back!” Grandpa: “Get that runner over!” Little bro: “Hit a bomb!” Dugout: “Don’t lunge!” “Stay thru the baseball!” “Stay short to the ball!” “Watch for the 1st pitch curveball!” “Sit fastball!” Hitter thoughts: You gotta block out the noise, have extreme focus, control the pressure and anxiety, have your plan and compete. Just writing this gave me anxiety, imagine what that young ballplayer is going through in the moment the next time you want to start barking out instructions on how to hit! 🤐 #BaseballTruth

@truth_4_future @flowsdoc Cutter is far worse for your arm than a curveball

@flowsdoc Cutters are just as good of a pitch to learn and use without the issues.

Should kids throw curveballs? Or are we asking the WRONG question? I just evaluated a 10-year-old with a UCL tear… who couldn’t even do a simple get up from the ground. And we’re debating pitch types? This isn’t a curveball problem. This is a youth development problem. Kids are: ⚾️ Playing 90+ games a year ⚾️ Throwing max intent before they can move ⚾️ Training like mini-pros ⚾️ Skipping athletic development ⚾️ Living in velocity culture And then we’re shocked when their elbows explode. So I’ll ask again: 👉 Is the curveball the villain? Or are we breaking kids before they ever get the chance to grow?

@Actsout @flowsdoc Curveballs have been scientifically proven to cause less stress on your arm than a fastball.

@flowsdoc Youth should not throw curveballs. My son played travel ball and his bonehead coach had him throwing curveballs as a 10 through 12 year-old. By the time he was a senior in high school, his arm was trashed.

Your wrist never moves when throwing a curveball. Lock it in position and keep it there through the entire motion.

@JohnnyVenerable Makes it more likely that they will take Love

@JohnnyVenerable You guys still have draft party tickets available?

This is the Cardinals fault. He was signed as a backup because he IS a backup. But by making a point to leak that he's their starter, it gives Brissett leverage.

@PHNX_Dbacks The injury is he can’t play baseball anymore

Carlos Santana was removed from today's game with an apparent injury that occurred during his AB in the 2nd inning

@JoeHealey42 Yeah no it can’t

I’d say the talk can shift from possible first round pick to possible first overall pick.

@TalkinBaseball_ @ShiDavidi @thehazelmae Morons

Canada's WBC players are all wearing hockey jerseys before their game against USA Tyler O'Neill cut the sleeves off of his (via @ShiDavidi, @thehazelmae)

@AZSports @Bickley_Marotta Does bickley have a ying yang necklace? 😂

Should fans be bracing for another down Cardinals season following yesterday's moves? @Bickley_Marotta dive in:

@SleeperAZCards @joshweinfuss Weinfuss doesn’t know his head from his asshole

#AZCardinals have not told Jacoby Brissett that he will be the starter next season, per @joshweinfuss

@JoshLipnik It’s a shit hole

Tucson is cool, definitely more my type of city than Phoenix. Feels like an older city, good college town vibe, great street food, abundance of neon signs.

@shegone03 I got news for you, Bryce Harper isn’t 6’2

Let’s just for a moment focus on how big of a man Aaron Judge is. Bryce Harper is listed at 6’2” 210lbs but compared to Judge he looks small. Now let’s consider the absurdity of teaching everyone to try and swing exactly like Judge. #shegone

@JohnnyVenerable @PHNX_Cardinals Gross

Leaving the NFL Combine, the three names we heard associated with the Arizona Cardinals QB search: Malik Willis Tyson Bagent Geno Smith