Our Daytona series just finished up with a rainout.  Big surprise.  We had a good amount of rain a couple of nights ago but got the game in after an hour and a half delay.

One of the neat things about the game of baseball is that it really is a small world.  In this case, I was able to meet up with Daytona’s Jericho Jones.

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Lets make it 2 days in a row with hitting coach interview.  Yesterday was Rangers’ Rudy Jaramillo, today is Chicago Cubs’ Von Joshua, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune:

Jeff Samardzija has been in the news a lot lately after signing his deal with the Cubs, so I decided to take a look at how pitching mechanics.

The full article appears here at Baseball Analysts.

I tried to point out or clarify in the comments section that I don’t think the differential in his winup-stretch tempo is that big of a deal.  It just got me looking at his tempo in general and he seemed just a bit behind the big boys. I think what it more interesting is his hip loading and rotation, which looks like it will need to improve if he is really going to make it big.  We’ll see how he progress and what type of adjustments are made.