MIAMI -- New Marlins hitting coach Dillon Lawson answered questions over Zoom for nearly 30 minutes earlier in the week.
Below are some additional highlights:
On valuing contact and power
“We do want to maximize contact rate. We want to maximize power, but power for one guy might look different than power for another guy. Something that I think we often say is, ‘precision is a form of power.’ Being able to square the ball up consistently … maybe you're not popping 112 or 115 or 120 mph exit velos, but if we can hit the ball squared up consistently and achieve hard line drives, things that are productive, that we've known over centuries of baseball, decades of baseball, these things have been…
