As he pulled his hands back, lifted his left foot up, and readied to whip his bat forward, the sensation Paul DeJong felt this past season was not a swing he could trust.
He hovered there more on the verge of a trust fall.
Maybe this would be the time something caught him and stopped his tumble.
“Whenever I had my leg kick, it was like I was up in the air and I’m floating, and that’s not a great position to be in,” DeJong said. “When you watch old Albert (Pujols videos), when a guy throws at this head and he hits a homer, dead center, against the Cubs, he’s like corkscrewing into the ground.