marcus brodil

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Last week Marcus Brodil showed off his strength with loud contact from Aug. 4-10. 💪🚀

Hard-Hit% - 55.6%
- 🆚 FB: 💯%
- 🆚 CB: 💯%
- 🆚 CT: 💯%
- HH/Swing% - 21.7%
Barrel% - 16.7%
Solid% - 11.1%
Avg EV - 97.1 mph
Max EV - 105.1 mph
EV50 - 95.8 mph
LD% - 44.4%
BB% - 12.9%

@crosscutters | @BrodilMarcus

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On a night full of hard hits, Marcus Brodil (@crosscutters) sits at the top with this 1️⃣1️⃣3️⃣.5️⃣mph single up the middle.😳🔥

This was Brodil’s hardest hit ball of the summer and has a Hard-Hit% of 41.4%.

@mlbdraftleague | @BrodilMarcus

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Marcus Brodil puts the @crosscutters ahead in the 1st with a groundball single up middle at 1️⃣0️⃣7️⃣.6️⃣mph.🔥

Brodil’s Hard-Hit% sits at 4️⃣3️⃣.3️⃣% and posted his top EV last night at 113.5mph.

@mlbdraftleague | @BrodilMarcus

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Marcus Brodil (@crosscutters) drives in his 2nd run of the night with his second hit, a double to RF at 9️⃣8️⃣.3️⃣mph.

Brodil has 4️⃣ Hard Hit balls in his seven at-bats.🔥

@mlbdraftleague | @BrodilMarcus

[MLB Draft League Data @draftleaguedata]

Raising his Hard-Hit rate from 40.6% to 41.7%, Marcus Brodil recorded two hits with exit velocities over 💯 mph on Wednesday night. 🚀

T4: 1️⃣0️⃣3️⃣ mph
T8: 1️⃣0️⃣6️⃣.1️⃣ mph

The Williamsport outfielder is now averaging 89.5 mph off the bat with a max of 107.2 mph and 90th percentile EV of 103.1 mph. Brodil also tripled in the game and scored two runs.

@crosscutters | @BrodilMarcus

[MLB Draft League @mlbdraftleague]

Marcus Brodil blasts his second 💣 of the summer, cutting the @crosscutters deficit to just 𝐨𝐧𝐞 in the 9th inning‼️🪓

@BrodilMarcus | #MLBDraftLeague

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𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭‼️🤩

Brodil cuts the @crosscutters deficit to just one with a 404ft blast to RCF.🪓

Brodil’s 3️⃣rd of the summer and second in as many nights.

@mlbdraftleague | @BrodilMarcus

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Marcus Brodil (@crosscutters) blasted a HR each of the past two nights, now tied for 3rd in the 2nd-Half with 3️⃣.

𝟖/𝟐𝟏 - 104mph, 393ft, 24 LA
𝟖/𝟐𝟐 - 103.1mph, 404ft, 27 LA

@mlbdraftleague | @BrodilMarcus

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Marcus Brodil’s second Hard Hit single off the night drives in the first two runs of the ballgame for the @crosscutters.🪓

𝐓𝟏 - Single, 111.6mph
𝐓𝟑 - 2R Single, 97mph

@mlbdraftleague | @BrodilMarcus

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🚀 𝟏𝟏𝟎 𝐌𝐏𝐇 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐋 🤯

Marcus Brodil CRUSHES his fourth 💣 of the summer!

@crosscutters | @BrodilMarcus

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Marcus Brodil (@crosscutters) has been on a tear the past two weeks, blasting 3️⃣ home runs and boasting a 5️⃣5️⃣.9️⃣% Hard-Hit%.🔥

12 G, .320/.393/.560 (.953 OPS), 3 HR, 3B, 2B, 13 RBI, 10 R, 6 BB, SB

Hard-Hit% - 55.9%
Max/Avg EV - 113mph / 91.9mph
Line Drive% - 23.5%
Z-Contact% - 91.5%
Z-Whiff% - 8.5%
Middle/Pull/Oppo - 32.4%/50%/17.6%

@mlbdraftleague | @BrodilMarcus

[Scott Kontny @bbqmortgageguy]

In his pro debut. @d_brutcher goes 3/5 with two doubles and a single. Only thing that kept his second double in the park was a 20 foot wall. Still went 395ft at 102 off the bat! Big things coming

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.

Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”

“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'

“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'

Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”

To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.

In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”

Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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Fun Fact: The 2023 season begins on this brand new turf in exactly nine weeks!

See you on Friday, February 17.

#HornsUp 🤘 #CarryTheBoat

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More work to do ahead

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A Freshmen Frenzy!

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We've got another career first on our hands as @BrodilMarcus jacks his to dead center!!

Bradley: 1
USF: 3

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Marcus Brodil @BrodilMarcus

[Zak Blair @coachzblair10]

MiLB Hitting Coord told us:

If you drive HS fastball consistently, you'll play in college.

If you drive NCAA fastball consistently, you'll get drafted.

If you drive MiLB fastball consistently, you'll make the show.

Start early. Be on time. Punish fastball. Make a living.