While hd didn’t go the opposite way much, I don’t think that means he can’t. You take what you are given, and he got lots of inside stuff, more so than his rookie year.

He actually might have scary power to the right part of the field and pitchers didn’t want to deal with that. I bring that up because he hit 27 of his 42 homers to the opposite side in AAA. So like pitchers can’t get him out inside and he probably can spank pitches on the outside portion of the plate consistently, too. What do pitchers do now?

Here is an excerpt:

Mike Bryant: Yeah, over the last year there’s been a lot of…I don’t want to say “hype” or anything, but everybody’s talking about Kris’s swing changes and it was all coming out different. Like when they say “leveling out of Kris’s swing.” He’s not leveling out the swing. People, they go, “See, the Cubs are fixing him. Bryant’s dad screwed him up.”

Like when they say “leveling out of Kris’s swing.” He’s not leveling out the swing.

This is the way they operate out here in Vegas. People in the know, know better. Let me tell you the basic change we made from his rookie year to last year. It was really simple: We worked really hard in the offseason at this. I use Zepp analytics, which measures pretty much all the angles in the swing.

What it measures, it has a 3D swing plane and it has two lines. It shows you a hand path and a barrel path and then it puts numbers to it — bat speed, time to impact, hand speed — and it’ll show you the vertical angle on the bat and the attack angle on the bat. The vertical angle, if you can visualize, if you hold the bad straight across the plate in front of you that would be zero and then if you point it straight down at the ground that would be 90.

When you’re measuring it through the zone it measures the vertical angle on the bat and if it’s too steep, you don’t have plate coverage. That number — most of the guys will operate with a good vertical angle so you don’t have the barrel above your hands — the barrel wants to be below your hands as it’s coming through the zone, so you have a positive angle. Most guys operate about 20 to 25. You look at guys like (Giancarlo) Stanton, he’s a little bit more flat. A guy like (Mike) Trout is a little bit more steep.

It’s four parts and endlessly fascinating. Here is the link. http://www.cubsinsider.com/2017/02/18/exclusive-kris-bryants-dad-mike-talks-ci-crafting-mvp-swing-son-can-get-even-better-part-1/