
“A lot of it has to do with just experience. “I think experience breeds a lot of willingness to change and have confidence in some change as you formulate a plan on offense and position yourself on defense,” Bader told The Post before the game. It was solid, simple hitting on a night in which the Yankees got production up and down the lineup. He went 3-for-4 with three singles, one of them driving in a run during a five-run third inning. Yankees feel Gleyber Torres ‘close’ to breakout after another home run

Robert Sabo for NY PostĪnd during the Yankees’ 10-5 win over the Athletics, Bader got one day closer to his hot start meaning something. Yankees center fielder Harrison Bader (22) triples during the fifth inning of the Yankees’ win over the A’s on Tuesday. Until, that is, it starts to mean something. 381/.409/.857 slash line entering Tuesday.īut because it is such a small sample size, it means little in the bigger picture. Those stats, however, include a 13.4-degree rise in launch angle, a 95 percent rise in batting average on breaking balls and a 22.4 percent rise in how often Bader is hitting it to the opposite field. So it’s important not to get carried away when noting the discrepancies on Bader’s Statcast page that help explain his red-hot start. That goes double for the Yankees’ Harrison Bader, who played just his seventh game of the season on Tuesday night after dealing with an oblique injury he suffered during spring training. It’s early May, so small sample sizes still rule the day in baseball. Yankees coach guesses ‘fat boy’ comment was ‘pointed at me’


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