some days I think he is slow Harpy and when we dive into the numbers everyone says judge is the best hitter in the game I think that's safe to say but who's number two it's probably yordon Alvarez and we'll dive in on Ops boards and the ability to hit multiple pitches let's get get in cuz he did he took live BP yesterday in Philadelphia Citizen's Bank Park and he does it from a balanced standpoint that everybody's trying to accomplish and search for there's a couple things I noticed with his swing that are Perfection and I just want to get into what he does so we'll take you through his first AB right here this is a breaking ball o top of the fourth against Taiwan Walker pause this okay in yordon Alvarez's mind you have to think like a hitter Taiwan Walker can't beat him with a heater he knows it Taiwan Walker knows it everyone in the stadium knows it he would have to almost throw that front hip paralyzer two seamer and get lucky and get away with it so he could almost sit in between in today's game there's not many times where you could go to the plate and sit in between what do I mean by that you don't have to just be on the fast ball he doesn't have an electric heater that you can't kind of wait and see and react okay there's the heater I'll shoot it to right field in today's game you got to be on one or the other against Taiwan Walker with limited velocity and the ability to throw a split in a breaking ball I guarantee you he's sitting kind of in between let me see it and adjust run it 01 on a breaking ball now he gets the one one split down and Away off the plate by 3 in and he feels he can cover everything in a short porch and he takes it up the Middle Run That Back for Me takes complete opposite field down the line all the way I want the Homer look at this watch this pause it at contact please run that back one click I mean look at this ball I mean you don't even swing at this but he's feeling so good and he knows taiwan's got nothing for him that he's like all right let me flip this split out the other way that's not a bad pitch right no not at all run it jeez and he knows it's gone you see his reaction there's no like oh I better get the second base on a ball Hitting off the wall no it's absolutely destroyed now he gets a little get me over onew breaking ball dead center in a two strike count run that back you know how they always say 80 will get you 100 when you're playing golf you're playing any sport it's like when you go after it full throttle it doesn't happen when you let the game come to you you want to talk about 80 he'll get you 100 this guy is not even flinching there's no effort boom dead center in Citizens Bank that is a big poke and this next one is a two iron heater boom do you think that's leaving I thought it was a double over Marsh's head and it's in the ferns so pause this bring up the Ops leaders for me and then we'll get into the side angles Ops plus leaders since the start of 2 judge yordon I mean that that's pretty much what it should look like right hot change Meed a 170 Ops plus minimum 300 plate appearances among players in integration era through 20 h27 season Mike Trout's done it six times Frank Thomas the Big Hurt five yordon four look at the names on that board wow these are uh nases in my ear they're all Hall of Famers except obviously trout and yordon we know Trout's going in po going in Jordon going in Robert maybe maybe give me a side angle Perfection right here run this real quick we talked about this yesterday watch it but you see that you see that subtle move run that back just a smidge we talked about this yesterday you're seeing there's different keys for guys you're seeing a lot of guys want to set this back hip kind of take it and set this back hip what does that do it locks you in position where it's tough to go forward if you go forward in anything hitting golf doesn't matter anything you're doing if you get your body in front of point of contact you're dead you want to hit behind the baseball so these guys are almost telling themselves set into the back hip lift that front leg hit in a door frame do not go forward run this you see I'm set right there boom I'm setting into that back hip I'm going to stay on the inside of my back leg pause perfectly stacked now he's 6'4 240 lb so he doesn't have to generate much that for him is stacked perfect now slow click this pause that is gorgeous he's not over strided we saw this with Corbin Carroll getting outside your body a little bit his hands are already starting to create lag bottom hands your steering wheel top hands your power deliver a blow to the baseball get me to the point of contact pause I me that's it want to hit behind the baseball nothing in front of the baseball everything boom completely behind it it doesn't even look like he caught it flush there he doesn't have full extension you click me one more wow goodbye just a gorgeous swing balance Rhythm timing doesn't move his head the ability to hit all different pitches that's the beauty of him and I keep showing that because you show that little little set the hip something we're seeing from Bobby wit s Perez you see it again even Aaron judge is doing it a lot of guys around the league and I just want I he gets compared to Big Poppy so much that I just wanted to bring this side angles up run that back watch when I say nothing going forward watch their head everything is going to stay minimal it might move two to three Ines but you're not getting these grandiose Dives at the ball the good hitters hit in a foam Booth there's not a lot going forward yes there are some guys in the league who can go out and get it and make it happen but for the most part all these guys are hitting from a stack position behind the baseball watch Big Poppy he loads his hands down that's what felt comfortable to me pause you see it right there that's his trigger for yordon he's got no hand play he just sits it there whatever feels comfortable pause you're not going to be a youth coach and take a kid who doesn't like to play with his hands right there and turn him into Big Poppy they will kind of tell you what they want to be and then it's a matter of getting them to the point of contact on time run this God it's good look at David pause I mean he's gone nowhere look at the bats look at look at this the lag create lag yeah looks like a boomerang coming through the Zone I know I got two boards run this real quick I can sit up here all day on a side angle and pick things apart wow and I have to show this because I mean he obviously is not intimidated by Philly in the least 2022 stuff of Legend it's one nothing Philly Alvarado had come in every time against him you think he cared look at what he does against all the pitches slugging percentage splits on pitch types look at the bottom only player in Major League Baseball the slug 530 or higher on all all three over that span we got one more board MLB rank since the start of 2022 hard hit percentage third Barrel percentage fifth expected average second expected slug slug second and we all know Robert what WIA is yeah we don't have tell people what who do you got number two after judge you got him you got SoDo after those boards my goodness yeah all those are very good Sluggers great stuff Dro real quick uh Dan as the uh the Astros begin a significant Series tonight against Kansas City at home they just sent down Chaz McCormack to the miners he's been struggling at the plate Kyle Tucker hopeful to return back at I think that's why the Jason Hayward signing now begins to make sense I think he'll end up playing right field form against right-handed uh pitching and I I obviously think it's a good move I feel terrible for Chaz McCormack he went deep Yesterday by by going down at Triple A sometimes you get get a chance to catch your breath and come back and help them um as they get into October all right so we'll see uh when Kyle Tucker uh will return [Music] is for is St