Read: The Revolution of Reyes
In a fantastic report for the Daily News, John Harper talks with Howard Johnson, Willie Randolph and Jose Reyes, who is trying to slow himself down at the plate to help avoid the type of slump he had at the end of last season.
Randolph, on Reyes’s slump, as quoted by Harper…
“Jose tried harder, harder, harder – and more was worse for him. But we forget that he’s still young, and the reality is that you’re going to struggle. People are making adjustments on you, and Jose is such a free swinger that he doesn’t make adjustments on the fly… We need to slow him down. It’s hard because he’s in attack mode all the time. Jose’s all go-go-go, and you love that, but good pitchers exploit that aggressiveness… Jose knows he’s a better hitter when he hits the ball down, but when you struggle the way he did last year, you don’t think about those things. I think Jose will be fine.”
…i think jose will be fine, too…as long as they don’t fill his head with too much information…he’s such a delicate case, because what makes him great, i.e., his quick, reckless abandon, is also may lead to his struggles…
…that’s part of maturing, though…learning how to balance it all…when to turn it one…when to turn it off…etc…and i believe, especially based on some of jose’s quotes to harper, that last season helped push along that maturation process…
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