Francisco Lindor on the verge of new hitting coach

As he prepared for his first game as the Mets’ new hitting coach, Hugh Quattabelm gave some clear answers, perhaps a mix of reality and diplomacy. Nevertheless it cannot be clarified who ranks as the top project of Quatabelm.

After all, only one Met has a $ 341 million contract to his name and two extra-base hits (through his first 23 games) to his name.

“I talked to him [Tuesday] Night for a while, ”Quatbellum said of Lindor. “She is still in a very good place mentally. He is not panicking. Number one, it is still really early in the year. This is a person who always thinks how to kill. He is trying to realize some things that have worked in the past. Perhaps the same process will happen again. We are not there yet.

“I have not talked to him [at length] Till now. He is probably still trying to figure out how to wield the magic of ‘Quattlebaum’ for God. We will reach there in time. We will build something that he has done really well in the past and he gets what he used to look like before and now compares it and see if he can add some of the ideas that have been made to him in the past Used to work, see how he joins what he is doing now. “

Francisco Lindor
Francisco Lindor
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Lindor scored 0-for-3 in the Mets’ 4–1 defeat in the first game of a double gamer against the Cardinals, leading his hit streak to 24-bait. She did not play in the night game, winning 7–2 meters.

The 42-year-old, who worked as an assistant hitting coach for the Mariners last season as his minor league director, hitting development before joining up with the Mets last winter, saw his hitting philosophy. Going into detail about – “It’s a mix” of old school and new school teachings, he introduced – or about the process that forced the Mets to meet with former coach Coach Chili Davis and his assistant Tom Slater .

“I don’t think it’s going to be an extreme deviation,” he said.

Quatlbaum did nothing but praise Davis and Slater, who he said welcomed him to the clubhouse during spring training; In addition, Kwaltboum and Davis, natives of Massachusetts, shared an old friend at Walt Hryniak, the famed hitting coach. While Pete Alonso voiced the surprise and sadness of the players on the front office decision on Tuesday, Quitlebaum assured that his new charges would not be leveled against him.

“I think people have been able to compartmentalize a little bit. It’s a different kind of issue.” It’s very normal and humane that they have empathy, some disappointment with losing the people they really cared about, They were together. And I think they all went out of their way to make it clear that all the frustrations they had had nothing to do with me. They want to give me a fair shot. In my limited conversation with him at spring training, we have been together so far. We have to build it now. “

It will take time, he admits, for him and his assistant Kevin Howard to know how much each player likes to digest and their preferred method of digestion. Of course, in the middle of the season with the team’s offense being reduced to work, time is Quittelbaum’s enemy.

“I’m trying to generate as much of everything as possible to people,” Quatbellum said. When they are ready, people are more confident. When things are simple they feel more ready. So if we can get them all the information they have and drop it down to something really simple, then people will believe more in the box because they will feel more prepared for what they are going to see. “

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