Ted Williams' secret sauce was the intensity he studied pitchers, or “knowing your enemy.”
He would say, “You’re not playing the Cincinnati Reds or the Cleveland Indians, you’re playing that pitcher ... and he’s the guy you concentrate on.”
Williams batting average dropped off when he swung outside his core, and so to will ours.
An average hitter can hit a pitch that is over the plate
three times better than a great hitter with a questionable ball in a tough
spot.