White Sox: Avisail Garcia works through struggles at plate

Avisail Garcia knows exactly why he has struggled at the plate and recognizes some of the poor habits he has developed.

Now he has to learn how to implement into games what he and hitting coach Todd Steverson have worked on in the cage. The main focus of their work is for Garcia to use his hands more often, which requires better weight distribution.

The trick for Steverson is to keep Garcia — who hasn’t homered since June 8, a span of 188 plate appearances — from overthinking. Perhaps the team’s best hitter in April and May, Garcia has a .232/.267/.266 slash line with four doubles, a triple and eight RBIs since he last homered.

“He’s got phenomenal hands,” Steverson said. “Sometimes in hitting…