“I think he needs to stay behind the ball better and use his legs,” Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez earlier this month when asked what catcher Keibert Ruiz needed to do to hit for a bit more power. “And they’re working with him on not jumping out. Like I’ve said, he’s got really good bat-to-ball skills, now we just got to get him to let the ball travel a little bit and let him use his lower-half a little better, and he can do that. So, I know he’s been working on left-handed and right-handed.”
Martinez was talking after Ruiz hit his third home run of the season on July 1st, to go along with 14 doubles he entered play with on Wednesday night in Citizens Bank Park.