Miguel Sano is working on cementing himself as the next face of the Minnesota Twins franchise. One of the slugger’s biggest struggles in 2016 was plate discipline, but watching his at bats in Friday night’s contest against the Tigers, those struggles seem to be behind him.
If you look back at Sano’s plate appearances in 2016, you’ll notice a common theme; he loved to chase pitches high and outside.
That led to a whopping 178 strikeouts in 116 games on the heels of 119 strikeouts in just 80 games in 2015. The flip side to that is his massive .