What is the Kevin Seitzer hitting approach?

[Spoonovic]

I saw someone mention the term “Seitzer approach” in the game thread. What exactly is the approach he is teaching?

 

Outside of the Jays trade/free-agent rumors I avoided all the other Jays offseason stories.

[mitchf]

I saw someone mention the term “Seitzer approach” in the game thread. What exactly is the approach he is teaching?

 

Outside of the Jays trade/free-agent rumors I avoided all the other Jays offseason stories.

How about we just reference the "Seitzer approach" every time we see an opposite field hit or somebody raising their OBP.

 

It's more fun that way.

[LunchBox]

How about we just reference the "Seitzer approach" every time we see an opposite field hit or somebody raising their OBP. It's more fun that way.

 

There seems to be some misunderstanding of what Seitzer means by "going the other way" or "spraying the ball", it's clearly a reference to a week of gay sex in his living room with Goins, not opposite-field hitting.

[gruber92]

I love April. Three games, in which the team has scored 7 runs, and we're all "ZOMG SEITZER EFFECT". If the team loses to Arccher and Tanaka, fans will be jumping off a bridge.

 

In all fairness, i could probably count on one hand how many times the offense ran up the pitch count in selective fashion like they did in the last two games against two top notch starters. Scoring only 7 runs in three games doesn't necessarily tell the tale,as they left loads of runners on base the last two games.

 

Coincidence? Maybe,we need a larger sample.

[Captain Adama]

i saw someone mention the term “seitzer approach” in the game thread. What exactly is the approach he is teaching?

 

"hit dat ball"

[Stangstag]

In all fairness, i could probably count on one hand how many times the offense ran up the pitch count in selective fashion like they did in the last two games against two top notch starters. Scoring only 7 runs in three games doesn't necessarily tell the tale,as they left loads of runners on base the last two games.

 

Coincidence? Maybe,we need a larger sample.

 

This

[TwistedLogic]

There's no such thing as a "Seitzer approach" or a "Murphy approach" or a "Mottola approach". Most people who use blanket terms like that know absolutely nothing about any kind of coaching, and it's usually the same people that blame won and lost seasons on managers (in other words, everything but the players). A coach (at least a decent one) will have a different approach to every single player, and that's how it is in most cases. That's why everybody has a different swing and a different stance and a different follow-through.

 

Yes, some guys might just generally think that being a patient hitter is better than being an overly aggressive one, that just makes them a smart coach, it doesn't mean they teach every player the same approach.

[flafson]

Hit the pitcher.

[Atothe]

I love April. Three games, in which the team has scored 7 runs, and we're all "ZOMG SEITZER EFFECT". If the team loses to Arccher and Tanaka, fans will be jumping off a bridge.

 

They scored 9 runs. Don't short change them. BTW your rays only scored 11 runs.

[Caper]

I love April. Three games, in which the team has scored 7 runs, and we're all "ZOMG SEITZER EFFECT". If the team loses to Arccher and Tanaka, fans will be jumping off a bridge.

 

It's about approach... Which is measurably better. Of course we are going to lose games.... But there are many very good abs going on.

[Caper]

There's no such thing as a "Seitzer approach" or a "Murphy approach" or a "Mottola approach". Most people who use blanket terms like that know absolutely nothing about any kind of coaching, and it's usually the same people that blame won and lost seasons on managers (in other words, everything but the players). A coach (at least a decent one) will have a different approach to every single player, and that's how it is in most cases. That's why everybody has a different swing and a different stance and a different follow-through.

 

Yes, some guys might just generally think that being a patient hitter is better than being an overly aggressive one, that just makes them a smart coach, it doesn't mean they teach every player the same approach.

 

Not true.. Murph had one message to all the hitters. "Grip it and rip it".... The Seitzer approach is patience... he who waits will be rewarded.

[John_Havok]

Not true.. Murph had one message to all the hitters. "Grip it and rip it".... The Seitzer approach is patience... he who waits will be rewarded.

 

I don't think Seitzer's approach can be narrowed down to "patience." He wants the same thing any of the last 3 hitting coaches want the Jays to do, go up with a plan and stick to it until you get to two strikes.

 

The difference in Seitzer is he's trying to convince guys like Edwin, Jose, Rasmus (ie dead pull hitters) that if you're at two strikes and you need to protect the strike zone, you can't take a home run cut on a borderline pitch, just use a controlled swing, get a piece of it and fould it off, or if it's against a shift, go the other way with it for a dinky single instead of coming out of your shoes and popping it up 200 feet. He's also trying to explain to these guys that not every pitch is going to be a fastball and they need to be more selective in what they swing at with less than two strikes. Just because it's in the strike zone doesn't mean you have to swing, unless there's 2 strikes.

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Seitzer's approach is to have Mark Buehrle pitch career-best games every single night.

[BluejayEd]

In all fairness, i could probably count on one hand how many times the offense ran up the pitch count in selective fashion like they did in the last two games against two top notch starters. Scoring only 7 runs in three games doesn't necessarily tell the tale,as they left loads of runners on base the last two games.

 

Coincidence? Maybe,we need a larger sample.

 

So much this. I dont post much but I watch a lot of Jays games and I would agree overall their approach seems to look better, Still early

[Boxcar]

The ball games that ensume, will tell a tale.

 

What does this even mean?

[cusstown]

Not true.. Murph had one message to all the hitters. "Grip it and rip it".... The Seitzer approach is patience... he who waits will be rewarded.

 

So he has the "Gary Denbo approach" then. How well did that work out? Or Mottolla's approach?

[G-Snarls]

The ball games that ensume, will tell a tale.

 

ITYM "ensue"

[Anemic0ffense]

/BUMP

 

Swing at balls that bounce in the dirt

 

Hack, hack, hack

 

Probably something like that... But in all seriousness, no coach can save this sorry lineup of hitters

[John_Havok]

Yeah, not sure how you teach pitch recognition to guys who've played baseball this long. I really do think these guys believe that every other pitch is guaranteed to be a mistake fastball and they decide beforehand whether to swing or not.