Gotta Love Dusty

[Tim]

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Reds manager Dusty Baker is a big fan of 3B prospect Juan Francisco. “He can hit,” Baker said. “He’s what you want young hitters to be. He’s aggressive. You want a young hitter that you can tone down, versus tone up. You want guys to be selective and go deep in the count, but that’s something that comes with experience. With young hitters, you want to see them aggressive."

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[Clem Fandango]

Dusty Baker should host a game show called "Shattered Aspirations"

[TruffleShuffle]

die in a fire dusty

[erik316wttn]

Corey Patterson part Deux.

[Derwood]

His philosophy on hitting is the exact opposite of Billy Beane's (who says that strike zone judgment can't be taught, but power can be acquired).

[chuckywang]

So basically he wants him to swing at anything and everything to hit those HRs?

[Soul]

You'd think with the way Dusty feels about patience, at the very least you could look at his own statistics and see a gradual increase in walks as he got older and wiser.

 

Yet his own career shows that isn't the case. Dusty was pretty consistently around the 50-60BB/yr average. He actually had two of his best base-on-balls years earlier in his career, which would seem to contradict his philosophy that patience comes with age.

 

If you didn't experience it that way Dusty, then why the hell do you hold to it? He's a living contradiction.

[sneakypower]

His philosophy on hitting is the exact opposite of Billy Beane's (who says that strike zone judgment can't be taught, but power can be acquired).

well, Giambi and Tejada are good proof of power being "acquirable"

[nilodnayr]

You'd think with the way Dusty feels about patience, at the very least you could look at his own statistics and see a gradual increase in walks as he got older and wiser.

 

Yet his own career shows that isn't the case. Dusty was pretty consistently around the 50-60BB/yr average. He actually had two of his best base-on-balls years earlier in his career, which would seem to contradict his philosophy that patience comes with age.

 

If you didn't experience it that way Dusty, then why the hell do you hold to it? He's a living contradiction.

 

Well just look at Joe Morgan who had excellent patience as a player...

[Rob]

You'd think with the way Dusty feels about patience, at the very least you could look at his own statistics and see a gradual increase in walks as he got older and wiser.

 

Yet his own career shows that isn't the case. Dusty was pretty consistently around the 50-60BB/yr average. He actually had two of his best base-on-balls years earlier in his career, which would seem to contradict his philosophy that patience comes with age.

 

If you didn't experience it that way Dusty, then why the hell do you hold to it? He's a living contradiction.

 

Well just look at Joe Morgan who had excellent patience as a player...

 

*hack*

 

*sac bunt*

 

*pull the ball to the 2nd baseman with less than two outs and a runner on 2nd*

[hardcorecubfan]

I picture Dusty like Mr Miagi. He hands them a fly swatter and lets loose a jar of flys and asks the rookies to kill all the flys before they go home. then the next day hand them a bat

[cubbinalltheway]

at lunch today, i overheard a guy talking about how dusty was such a better manager than lou. he was going on and on, and rather loudly. i wanted to say something so badly, but i refrained.

[laurens]

at lunch today, i overheard a guy talking about how dusty was such a better manager than lou. he was going on and on, and rather loudly. i wanted to say something so badly, but i refrained.

 

Wow, there are people who actually believe that?

[NCCubFan]

I picture Dusty like Mr Miagi. He hands them a fly swatter and lets loose a jar of flys and asks the rookies to kill all the flys before they go home. then the next day hand them a bat

"Show me Kill The Flies."

[Guest]

I picture Dusty like Mr Miagi. He hands them a fly swatter and lets loose a jar of flys and asks the rookies to kill all the flys before they go home. then the next day hand them a bat

 

That's actually pretty funny.

[biittner77]

I've told this story before but our baseball coach has a video called Dusty Baker teaches hitting or something to that effect. In the video, Dusty's assistants show the kids the fundamentals of hitting. Then at the end Dusty pretty much contradicts everything they said.

[Guest]

at lunch today, i overheard a guy talking about how dusty was such a better manager than lou. he was going on and on, and rather loudly. i wanted to say something so badly, but i refrained.

 

Wow, there are people who actually believe that?

 

Did you already forget that Dusty single-handedly led the Cubs to within one win of the World Series?

 

Tsk tsk.

[wvcbxl]

Did you already forget that Dusty single-handedly led the Cubs to within one win of the World Series?

 

Tsk tsk.

 

In his defense, he was only 12 back then. :-))