Kevin Long knows how talented Trea Turner is, but the 27-year-old shortstop managed to surprise even his hitting coach in 2020’s 60-game season.
“He did some things that really surprised me,” Long said early this spring. “One was the amount of power that he possessed the other way.
“That kind of shocked me. I wasn’t expecting him that have that kind of opposite field power. But we saw that kind of play last year.”
Turner explained that opening up the opposite field was a big thing for him, and something he embraced as a means of improving his game.