Dillon Lawson isn’t reinventing hitting, he just wants to look at it differently. The Yankees’ new hitting coach said Wednesday he is focused on “hitting strikes hard,” hitting the ball over the infield and making every swing the best — not just with two strikes.
“I’m still going to cheer and be excited about the 100 mile per hour ground ball that gets through the infield. Runs are runs and that’s the name of the game right now,” Lawson said in a video conference call with reporters Wednesday morning. “We want to score runs so we can win games. But when we’re talking about maybe the best version of a hitter; we know where the most production comes from so we’re just trying to aim for that kind of range.”
The Yankees’ minor league hitting coordinator since 2018, Lawson was measuring exit velocity during batting practice and preaching “squaring the ball up,” and “hit strikes hard,” getting the maximum exit velocity.
