Alex Bregman Quotes

That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

Once I found my swing, I feel like if I put a good swing on it, I feel like it's got a good chance to go wherever - left, right, center - it doesn't matter. But I'm not just out here going to swing for home runs of anything. I'm just trying to put a good swing on the baseball.

I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my ball.

If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.

Our hitting coaches have done a great job of understanding when I don't look right at the plate and getting me back on track.

One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.

As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.

The biggest thing is, you don't hit the good sliders; you just hit the mistakes. That's what my thing has always been: Just keep hunting mistakes.

You never want to lose a strength, but I've also got to try and be a complete hitter.

I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he goes about it and the way he looks at situations, when to try to drive a ball versus when to shoot a ball.

Sometimes you go to home plate, and you have an idea, like a clear idea, of what they're going to throw to you. I think that's all: getting better pitches to hit, realizing when you hit the ball better, what pitch you hit, if you're chasing too much. If you figure out all that, you can get a little better as a player.

If someone throws you a good slider, you're not going to hit it. You've got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.