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The beauty of first-ball, fastball hitting (and not just in the first at-bat) is that it eliminates the pitcher's strategy in the at-bat. You step in, get a good swing on a good pitch, put the ball in play, and your chances are reasonable. The guy can't fool around with you for three or four pitches. Those pitches may put you ahead in the count, but they may also put you behind. The whole idea of working the count is to see a fastball in a good location (the hanging curve is perfectly acceptable, too). But if you see this good pitch to hit as the first offering, go to hacking! No use waiting!
New York Mets
1B
I tell them all, "Guess fastball." You can adjust to a curveball, a knuckleball, a slider, or a change off the fastball, but it's tough to guess a curveball, a knuckleball, a slider or a change, and then hit the fastball. I believe most pitchers will throw the fastball six out of ten times. So six out of ten times I'm sitting on dead red and knowing I still have a chance at the others... You can count the good breaking-ball hitters in this league on the fingers of one hand -- well, the fingers of two hands. We're all fastball hitters in the end.
New York Mets
Hitting Coach
I can't very well tell my batters, "Don't hit it to him." Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.
Gilbert Raymond "Gil" Hodges
New York Mets
Manager
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