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How Giants became masters of hitting to all fields

Buster Posey always has an all-fields approach. The Brandons, Belt and Crawford, often do their best work when they hit to the opposite field. Nori Aoki, my goodness. That’s all he does except when muscling up, right?

Matt Duffy has an effective inside-out swing. Kelby Tomlinson goes the other way a lot.

I don’t recall another Giants team being this proficient in opposite-field hitting, even in the Pablo Sandoval days.

Kevin Mitchell tried to be like Willie Mays and use the jet stream at Candlestick to pump balls over the fence in right-center.