Is there a strategy that can help us be more successful? I came across one this week implemented by the Boston Red Sox.
In baseball a lot depends on the pitcher and over the past few years as a team their pitchers have not been effective. This year, however, their ERA (earned run average) is the lowest to begin a season in franchise history since 1968. Why?
Their success has been attributed to a philosophy taught by new pitching coach Andrew Bailey who flipped the approach from throwing a pitch that matches the specific weakness of a hitter to throwing the best pitch a pitcher has in his repertoire.
As Red Sox catcher Reese McGuire explains, “In the past, maybe a hitter’s weakness didn’t quite match up with our pitcher’s strength, but we would try to go to that because it was a hitter’s weakness, We might get burned by it, and then we’re sitting there going, ‘Man, we didn’t really use our best stuff.’
One strategy to be more successful, in other words, is choose simply to do what you do best.
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