PHILADELPHIA – Soon after Nelson Velázquez’s late-May call-up, the Cubs outfielder brought an area of focus to his new hitting coaches.
“I wanted to stay a little more to the middle of the field,” he told the Sun-Times this month. “So, use that big part of the field.”
Cubs hitting coach Greg Brown was thrilled.
“He had a mindset of, ‘I want to start building this now so two, three years from now, this really is the foundation of where I’m at,’” Brown told the Sun-Times, “And that’s, to me, a great thing.”
Through his new focus, Velázquez hasn’t lost his power, which he demonstrated Friday in the first multi-homer game of his young career.