Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Time
As new Cubs center fielder Cody Bellinger has been working with new major-league hitting coach Dustin Kelly at the team’s Arizona complex this offseason, they’ve found they use the same hitting vocabulary.
“There’s not as much sifting through information,” Kelly told the Sun-Times. “We get to the point pretty quick.”
The overlap – when talking about Bellinger’s load, gather and pressure points in his back leg – was a side effect of their crossover in the Dodgers organization that Kelly hadn’t necessarily anticipated.