“Why are we teaching a 12-year-old kid who is just learning baseball to swing up and hit fly balls, when that might not be what's going to help him be successful? I think it has turned into more of a cookie-cutter type thing, where we're trying to teach everybody to hit the same way when everybody is different. … If I were to learn to hit the way they are teaching kids now, I would have never made it to the big leagues."
“Why are we teaching a 12-year-old kid who is just learning baseball to swing up and hit fly balls, when that might not be what's going to help him be successful? I think it has turned into more of a cookie-cutter type thing, where we're trying to teach everybody to hit the same way when everybody is different. … If I were to learn to hit the way they are teaching kids now, I would have never made it to the big leagues."
