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Different kind of baseball IQ: How Mark Canha is using creativity to rethink his plate approach

Related Topics: Mark Canha, IQ, Len Hutton

It’s a spring training day in mid-February, before a pandemic is on anybody’s mind but epidemiologists, and Mark Canha is deep into conversation about his approach to hitting — or, more accurately, his approach before hitting.

Canha turned in a breakout season at a. . .

After realizing the mistake, Hutton called Canha and said, “We need you here,” Cunningham remembered. Canha told Hutton that his wife, Marci, had a doctor’s appointment the following morning (the couple is expecting their second child).