Back at Triple-A, these are the changes SF Giants believe can cut down Joey Bart’s strikeouts
ATLANTA — This would have been a trip home for Joey Bart. Growing up some 40 miles northeast of Truist Park, Bart developed into a top high school prospect, then at the downtown campus of Georgia Tech earned the pedigree that convinced the Giants to make him their highest draft pick since Will Clark.
“When you’re in the battle every single night, it’s hard to make those adjustments because you have to go perform,” said hitting coach Justin Viele, who spent the week before the Giants hit the road and Bart reported to Triple-A Sacramento implementing a development plan to get the once-promising backstop back on track.
In Viele’s estimation, mental and mechanical hurdles take equal blame for Bart’s strikeouts. The time off, the club hopes, will help him overcome the mental barriers, and there’s belief some mechanical tweaks can have downstream effects, too. “We want him to feel like he was bowing his knees out, like going down for a squat,” Viele said. “Getting some stability in his setup from there just creates the balance of the backside, where the knee stays over the foot. … We wanted to kill as much of the backshift as we can. … Main thing, it was his setup, getting a little bit stronger in his base and shedding some of the wasted movement.”
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