Yankees new hitting mentor Sean Casey talks first day discourse, old school versus Analytics, N.J. roots
MLB Organization expert Sean Casey got a call last Thursday from his dearest companion in baseball.
He and Yankees administrator Aaron Boone talk constantly, yet this call was business.
Boone charmed that the Yankees were intending to fire hitting mentor Dillon Lawson. He needed to convince Casey to be the substitution.
Casey has gotten a ton of calls like since he finished his 12-year playing vocation in 2008 as a three-time Elite player first baseman who hit .302 with three 20 or more homer seasons. He generally expressed no to hitting mentor offers before. He was content working parttime for the MLB Organization and investing energy with his family back home in Upper St. Clair, Dad., a suburb of Pittsburgh.
This was unique.
"It was the Yankees," Casey expressed Tuesday in a radio meeting with WDVE in Pittsburgh. "It was Boonie."
Lawson was terminated after the Yankees lost to the Whelps last Sunday to go into the Elite player break with the third-most reduced batting normal in the majors.
Casey was employed on Monday and will assume control over starting Friday when the Yankees get back from a four-sunrise for an end of the week series in Colorado.
"It got moving so quick," Casey said. "The before I know it, I was conversing with Brian Cashman, and they let their hitting mentor go and I was employed."
Casey will converse with Yankees columnists in a Zoom approach Wednesday.
A day ahead of schedule, Casey's week by week spot with the WDVE morning group endured 15 minutes and made a great deal of progress.
Here are features:
Casey is arranging a rah discourse to Yankees hitters before Friday's down against the Rockies.
"I awaken at four AM like, 'Here's a decent discourse to give them!' I have like seven talks in my notes what I need to tell these folks. I think the best thing that I feel as a hitting mentor coming into the circumstance is I can take a gander at these folks sincerely and say, 'Hello, tune in, I've battled the manner in which you battled. I've been at the highest point of the mountain like you folks. I've had my highs and lows. I've gone 0-for-35. I hit a homer in the Worldwide championship. I've experienced the toil you've had to deal with each and every year. I've had fans boo me. I've had fans cheer me.'
"I believe that is where I will associate with the folks. 'I figure out you, man. It all makes sense to me. Anything that you thoroughly consider you're going in a battle, I've been there. We should talk. We should separate it. What's more, we should ensure we continue onward forward.
"That will be my message. 'How about we continue to move, man! Allow inability to be data for us. What's more, let disappointment be criticism, since, in such a case that not this game will gobble you up.'"
Casey plans to treat Aaron Judge and the Yankees' different stars like "lions," not "house felines."
"I've generally thought, 'What sort of hitting mentor would I be?' Tune in, toward the day's end these folks in the major associations are major leaguers only on purpose. And furthermore, assuming you're on the Yankees, that is one more degree of for what reason you're there. They're paying you (enormous) cash to be there.
"So for me as a hitting mentor … I could have done without (hitting mentors) coming in and attempting to change swings. That is simply not the way in which it works. This isn't secondary school. This is the major associations. These folks are lions. They're not little house felines. Going in, it's getting to know folks, getting a few compatibility and building connections.
"What are some keys while they're going great that work and what are some keys while they're battling that work and don't work? Furthermore, how might we limit that and ensure that we're not going down a way of battling too lengthy that we can sort of converse that pattern.
"My best hitting mentors were likewise my psychological execution mentors, folks that could converse with me and simply associate. So I'm hoping to interface with these folks. I conversed with Anthony Rizzo and Aaron Judge a few days ago. I let him know I'm truly anticipating meeting them in Colorado on Friday and getting to work."
Casey will work with the Yankees' examination staff, yet he has a great deal of old-school in him, too.
"'Elbow up' … That doesn't work any longer. MLB Organization has been so bravo. I feel like it's been a preparation ground since I know by the day's end you need to wed the two at this at this stage. In 2023, the examination are important for the game and there's a great deal of examination. Presently there are more cameras. There are more points. There are more details. (Yet, I think the game was enthusiastically enough when you attempt to say, 'See the ball, hit the ball.' I'm dead serious. It's intense enough when you attempt to keep it basic.
"I think the greatest thing with the numbers is you must have the option to utilize the numbers for your potential benefit. Find numbers that could work for you. I recall that I could continuously hope to see a left-given reliever that was coming in to confront me in the seventh or eighth, what did he toss first pitch? Is it true or not that he was 72% two-seamer? Also, how did clear me out with two strikes? Was it 80% slider away? Those are the sorts of things I truly needed to be aware as a hitter.
"I'm anticipating plunking down with the examination folks since I realize the Yankees have truly outstanding in the framework. I need to become familiar with their framework and plunk down with the folks and express out loud, 'Whatever numbers do you all truly like so I can ensure that I'm in total agreement with you?
"Also, I will go the alternate way, as well and say, 'Hello, tune in, our most significant detail that we must gander at is the manner by which well are you seeing the ball?' Since, in such a case that we don't do that at a first class level, we won't ever be the club that we truly need to be. So I will wed the two with the examination and furthermore old school Ted Williams, Tony Gwynn talking hitting."
Casey as of now have a few hints on the best way to survey the Yankees from his old Tigers director, Jim Leyland.
"He was so psyched. He called me. I got back to him. He was part of the gang that I truly needed to get his feedback. I said, 'Skip, you got any guidance for me,' and he transformed into supervisor Leyland. It was inconceivable. I was like, 'In the event that I could record this discussion!' I'm so lucky. Jim Leyland, I believe he's quite possibly of the best psyche baseball has at any point seen."
Casey experienced childhood in Pittsburgh, yet he was brought into the world in Willingboro, N.J., and has a ton of family in more prominent New York.
"My entire family is New Yorkers. My folks, both Long Island. I have such countless cousins family members who actually live out in New York and there are a great deal of Yankee fans in there. My father and I went to lunch yesterday and we had a smidgen of a second. He just gave me an embrace. We had that association as a dad and child. He would go to Yankees Arena with his uncle, harking back to the '50s. I just got teared up, that association. It's most celebrated establishment ever and I have an opportunity to wear pinstripes. I'm only sort of squeezing myself."
Boone and the Yankees baited Casey back into uniform.
"My relationship with Boonie was a gigantic component. He's presumably my dearest companion in the game. I played six years with him in Cincinnati, and we've generally remained truly close. I believe that was a major piece of choice. Yet additionally to the way that they asked me for the final part Ideally, in three and a half months we'll bring home a Worldwide championship. Brian Cashman let me know he had never done this in 25 years, never supplanted a mentor around mid-year in his residency for the Yankees. So it just was the powerful coincidence for me to say, 'I'd be insane to miss this open door with the opportunity to go to the Bronx and come out on top for a championship and accompany Boonie in such an extraordinary association."
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