After he said that in spring training the Diamondbacks look at quality of contact and evaluate stuff in the zone, Torey Lovullo said the following:
“The hitting portion of it for me is are they in the middle of the diamond, are they back spinning the baseball, what’s their front side look like. Are they hitting off their front side, are they able to hit secondary stuff.” — Torey Lovullo
My conclusion is that batting objectives in spring training are multi-dimensional. Instead of a single-minded focus on homers and the usual batting statistics, it seems Torey Lovullo is looking at additional things.