Prior to the 2019 offseason, Cameron Maybin was struggling to adapt his swing to the launch-angle revolution. As quoted in Lindsay Adler’s piece from The Athletic (subscription required), Maybin said, “I didn’t have the ingredients. I’ve gotta wait for somebody to give me the ingredients. So it’s like, I want the ingredients to how the swing works.”
Maybin tapped the grandfather of the launch-angle revolution himself, Craig Wallenbrock, to guide him through the grocery store. The same hitting coach that led J.D. Martinez’s famed transformation into a perennial league-leader (except this year), helped Maybin start to lift the ball with greater force.