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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Can Visual Training help improve batters?
Seattle Mariners first baseman Russell Branyan began this season on a tear. His numbers at the All Star break: a .280 batting average (versus a career average of .234), a .382 on-base percentage (career .331), and a .573 slugging percentage (career .491). In interviews, Branyan credited his newfound success in large part to a piece of software that runs on an ordinary laptop. “I think it’s helped me really pinpoint and focus on the ball,” Branyan said of the Vizual Edge program, which offers a variety of exercises to train and sharpen visual skills. “I see the ball exactly where it is. I don’t want to say it’s all because of this. … But, I mean, I was a .230 hitter.”
maybe not.
As for Russell Branyan? The second half of his season didn’t go nearly as well as the first. His on-base percentage, for instance, dropped to a subpar .274. Granted, he’s been dealing with a back injury, which may well be the source of his problems. But it could also be that visual training isn’t yet the performance-aiding Holy Grail that top-end athletes are forever in search of.
Mark S.
Posted: September 30, 2009 at 02:23 PM | 0 comment(s)
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