Will Clark and the “Modern Approach” to Hitting

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty ImagesOn KNBR’s Murph & Mac show this week, former San Francisco Giants first baseman and current special assistant to the club, Will Clark, got a little salty when asked about the “modern approach” to hitting.

Invoking the slap-hitter ghosts of old, Clark said, “To be perfectly honest, Rogers Hornsby and Ty Cobb would be rolling over in their grave right now if they knew what the hell was going on with hitters now.”

It’s easy to dismiss Clark’s comments as grouchy and cantankerous. They are wonderfully boomer-ish (especially coming from a current Giants employee) and yet, probably correct to a certain degree.

Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby would show no reticence in…