There’s an axiom regarding habits that tells us it takes 21 days to either establish or break one. That can obviously vary and I’m going to take some liberties with timing as we continue, but Jason Heyward’s opposite-field rocket in Monday’s defeat of the Reds got me thinking again about the changes in his swing and how they’ve taken hold.
In general, it’s a bad idea to view a baseball player’s production in arbitrary snapshots of x games at a time, particularly when we’re zooming in on those samples to get really close.