Today it's all about lifting the ball and driving the ball into the gaps. It's the kind of swing we rarely see anymore. "He's snake-quick, because he uses little body movement and relies on reflexes, not muscle." "He can wait until the last instant to commit his wristy, inside-out swing," Boswell wrote. That meant he'd just hit the ball two steps to the infielder's right. His bunting creates holes."Ĭarew once said that he'd laugh when he saw an infielder moving two steps to his left. It's like he's always hitting with the infield pulled in. "That distorts the whole infield and creates wider angles for him to hit the ball through. "First, he bunts better than anyone else, even with two strikes," Lynn told Thomas Boswell in 1983. That's how good he was at manipulating the baseball: Better over 19 seasons than Ichiro at his peak.įred Lynn explained one reason for Carew's success was his ability to bunt. The best active comparison would be Ichiro Suzuki, although Carew walked a lot more and was a much better hitter compared to the league averages over their careers Ichiro's best single-season OPS+ was 130 in 2004 Carew's career mark was 131. If you're too young to remember Carew, he was beautiful to watch, the ultimate finesse player, owning the batter's box like he was conducting the orchestra. 300 every season from 1969 to 1983.Ĭarew, 71, underwent heart and kidney transplant surgery Thursday, after living with a left ventricular device that has pumped his heart since September 2015, when he suffered a heart attack and went into cardiac arrest while undergoing surgery to open clogged arteries.
He could hit in all of them, winning seven batting titles, including a. Sometimes he'd crouch down lower, especially against power pitchers, shrinking the size of the strike zone. Sometimes he'd crowd the plate, daring pitchers to come inside. That wasn't really true, but he did have different stances. They used to say Rod Carew had a different stance for every pitcher.
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