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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, June 28, 2022The Guardians duo carrying Jamaica’s baseball legacy
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Posted: June 28, 2022 at 12:07 PM | 5 comment(s)
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1. . . . . . . Posted: June 28, 2022 at 12:16 PM (#6084271)Thats what i mean - like with other batsmen who arent limited over specialists, while you assume they would've been fine baseball players, their mechanics and approach are so different from a baseball swing that its hard to know just how well they would've translated - obviously they have the hand-eye and reflexes, but could they have generated the necessary exit velocity to succeed in baseball?
But Gayle's mechanics look like a Harper-esque, weight-transfer baseball swing. He hits the #### out of the ball, and with loft. And he obviously has contact skills since he's 'barreling' spin in the IPL. Basically he was so talented he could use baseball style mechanics and mindset in cricket, and make it work (in limited over).
I think the translation certainty on Gayle is near 100% - he's the lost inner circle baseball great of the late 20th C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2mRXtTG9Zo
Keep in mind, when he's opening his hips to pull with power, that is an extremely risky thing to do and he can't pull the trigger on it until after the delivery has begun - he can't sit-pull like a Gallo or similar TTO type in baseball would.
This is a line of discussion I would have been interested in following, but I can't contribute since I don't know cricket or Gayle.
I mentioned it to a British friend:
"Hey, so someone mentioned a Jamaican cricket player who might have been even better at baseball . . ."
"Chris Gayle? Absolutely, I can see it."
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