So, about that split grip Josh Harrison has been using at the plate?
“I’m surprised it took you guys so long to ask me,” Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez said in a Zoom call with reporters last week.
“It helps get your top hand through the baseball a lot easier,” Martinez explained.
“I played with Miguel Cairo who used to do it, Shawon Dunston did it when I played with him with the Cubs, but it keeps your top hand, trying to get above the ball.
“He says he’s so bottom hand dominant that he started doing that split grip and it helps him get on top of the baseball, just because he can split his hands a little bit.