Over the last few years, home runs and strikeouts have skyrocketed. Many have blamed the supposedly all or nothing approach to the launch angle focus of today’s hitters.
Even the Chicago Cubs fell prey to the growing chorus of criticism and hired Chili Davis as their batting coach in an attempt to reorient their hitters’ approach at the plate. One of the biggest hitters to struggle was Kris Bryant.
More contact, less swing-and-miss, more clutch hits. But it didn’t work out, and the Cubs power outage in last September ended the Davis experiment after one year.