Victor Robles was out on the field in Miami early on Friday, working out with Washington Nationals’ hitting coach Kevin Long to try to shorten his swing and keep his hands inside pitches, with a net placed halfway across the plate to enforce the limitations.
“We talked about that,” Davey Martinez explained when reporters wondered about the point of the drill they saw Robles and Long working on. “[Robles] went out there and they did some work today, but one, try to get him inside that baseball, not around the baseball, but like I said, he is walking a lot more, he’s being more consistent now, it’s about when he does take a swing and he fouls the balls back, and he has a good swing, those balls need to get put in play.