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Data-driven damage: How swing-decision work is improving hitting across the Orioles’ farm system

After the Orioles were nearly no-hit by the Houston Astros on Monday night at Camden Yards, manager Brandon Hyde lamented how undisciplined some of the hitters in his lineup are and how badly that needs to change.

“Just a lot of passes at the baseball on pitches that we couldn’t drive, and that’s just an area that our younger players especially really need to improve on to be able to hit good pitching in this league,” Hyde said.

Down below on the Orioles’ farm, that’s the singular focus of a reimagined hitting program that has created improvement for their batters on par with the transformative changes to the pitching side in 2019.