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[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

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[Jermaine Curtis @JermaineCurtis]

When I was with the St. Louis Cardinals, we had a team meeting about hitting with two strikes.

Albert Pujols was leading it.

At the time, he was hitting something ridiculous with two strikes.

I want to say it was around .265.

Naturally, everyone wanted to know how.

So somebody asked:

"What's your two-strike approach?"

Albert's answer surprised me.

He said:

"I think fastball inside and hit it back through the middle."

That was it.

No complicated mechanics.

No secret formula.

Just:

Fastball inside.

Back through the middle.

I remember sitting there thinking:

"Why would you think fastball inside with two strikes?"

So somebody asked him.

And Albert said something I'll never forget.

He said:

"If I can hit a fastball inside back through the middle..."

"I can hit the fastball away."

"I can stay on the changeup."

"I can stay on the slider."

"I can stay on the curveball."

Then he paused.

And said:

"The ball gets deeper."

That's when it clicked for me.

He wasn't trying to pull the inside fastball.

He was using one thought to cover everything.

The more I thought about it...

The more it made sense.

So I started trying it.

And it changed the way I thought about hitting with two strikes.

Instead of worrying about every pitch...

I focused on one.

Fastball inside.

Back through the middle.

See it DEEP.

If you're struggling with two strikes, here's what I'd do tonight:

Round 1: Short Box

(Set the distance somewhere between front toss and batting practice.)

Have a coach throw only fastballs inside.

Your only thought:

"Fastball inside."

Drive the ball back through the middle.

10 swings.

Round 2: Mix Speeds

Now the coach mixes:

- Fastballs
- Changeups
- Breaking balls
- Sliders

But your thought never changes.

You're still looking:

"Fastball inside."

10 swings.

Round 3: Two-Strike BP

Every pitch starts 0-2.

Compete.

Battle.

Use the same approach.

"Fastball inside."

Back through the middle.

10 swings.

That's it.

30 focused swings.

One thought.

One approach.

One goal.

Drive the baseball back through the middle.

One thing I've learned:

Most hitters get worse with two strikes because they add thoughts.

Albert got better because he removed them.

With two strikes, simplicity is a weapon.

Thank you for reading,
Jermaine Curtis

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[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

@MiaechlGates @TJStats Dodgers didn’t have a position for him. He played 2B/3B/LF and he was barely used but was a top-25 prospect in their org

[AT @BaseballWRLD_]

This trade really needs to be talked about in the same way Yordan Alvarez for Josh Fields is

[The Tactics Guy @thetacticsguy]

PSG’s Structural Rotations 🧠⚽️

[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

@ThatWsoxfan He’s got a long wide swing made for power. He’s gotta shorten that swing up with RISP

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@MLB Best fantasy baseball pitcher since Lincecum

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[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

@whitesox @SoxTranslator lol they don’t have Murakami on their list on https://t.co/G2lbY7cysk. Amateurs.

[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

@southsidejoe20 @whitesox @CaesarsSports Bro has the lowest OPS on the team and we bar him 3rd. He should be near the bottom of the order

[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

@ruallsion Houston is, in fact, already half American and halfrican

[Chuck Garfien @ChuckGarfien]

Games: White Sox 61 Cubs 61

Runs: White Sox 285 Cubs 285

AVG: White Sox .238 Cubs .238

Record: White Sox 32-29 Cubs 32-29

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

😂💀 Insurance agent just casually dropped the most HOOD financial advice of all time:

“If you got a kid who likes to shoot people, bar folks, or stay in crazy situations… put ’em in a $100k life insurance policy for $25 a month. They get clapped THIS weekend? You getting a check, fam.”

This man said “be prepared… for the streets”

😭 Bro turned drive-bys into passive income.

[Pitch Yarns @pitch_yarns]

736 men arrived in Germany in 2006.

Only 4 remain in 2026.

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

I accidentally walked into a "locals only" type izakaya. You know the kind, no English, everyone knows each other, they got quiet when I walked in.

I was about to leave but the owner called out "sit, sit!" and pointed to a seat at the bar.

I was the only non-regular there. Everyone else clearly came there after work every day, had their usual orders, their usual seats.

The guy next to me, drunk off his ass, started talking to me in slurred Japanese. I understood maybe every fifth word.

The owner translated some of it: "he wants to know if you like baseball."

I said sure, yeah. That was the wrong answer because the drunk guy wanted to have a full conversation about baseball.

For the next hour, with the owner translating bits and pieces, I had this passionate discussion about Japanese baseball with a man who could barely sit straight.

Other regulars joined in. Someone bought me a beer. Someone else ordered food for me without asking what I wanted.

The owner kept saying "they are excited to talk to foreigners. Usually foreigners don't come here."

By the end of the night, I'd exchanged contact info with three people, been invited to someone's house for dinner (I was leaving the next day, couldn't go), and learned way too much about the Hanshin Tigers.

When I tried to pay, the owner said the drunk baseball guy already paid my bill. I tried to find him to thank him. He'd already left.

The owner said "he says you are a good listener. That is rare for young people."

I was just too confused to do anything but nod and smile, but apparently that counted as good listening.

[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

@deannabryant210 @SSBehavior @ChiHighEd I didn’t say anything about immigrants. You also discounted the fact that he’s not fluent in English. Had he been, he could conduct a professional interview that way.

You’re just a woke retard who’s fishing for a reason to insult someone who had genuine interest in the topic. 🖕

[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

@deannabryant210 @SSBehavior @ChiHighEd https://t.co/gj6szGHCTc

My sister in Christ, I don’t think you’re so sure.

[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

@deannabryant210 @SSBehavior @ChiHighEd lol you don’t remember is Covid AL MVP speech? Most awkward zoom call

[dkty 💯 @DukeOtty]

@SSBehavior Drop some more of that hot tea. There should be a 30 for 30 on the most hyped Sox team ever.