Bench coach Kai Correa has SF Giants focused on fundamentals after committing 4th-most errors in MLB last season.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A manager’s time is valuable in spring training. He can only be in one place at a time, when his players are divided into a dozen or more groups spread across multiple fields. What he chooses to observe shows his priorities.“I just feel like we were not great at executing the fundamentals last year,” Kapler said.So do the numbers: By Defensive Runs Saved , they were dead last. By Outs Above Average , they were third-worst.
So, that is why Kapler begins each morning standing on the infield of the diamond here at Scottsdale Stadium, watching his pitchers go through fielding practice, his infielders chase down runners and his outfielders hit the cutoff man.“We’re framing it a little bit differently,” Kapler said. “We want our players to know how often things occur.
“What you seek when you’re a player is, ‘hey, my time and my workload is really valuable and this job is really, really hard. So if I have context to an activity that might not be my most favorite thing in the world to do, it helps for me to then understand why I’m going to spend my time doing that.’ So my thought process by adding was that it was just a fun way, an attention-getting way to provide that context.”“We got a runner out via the rundown 17 times.
Before becoming Kapler’s bench coach, Correa gained recognition for his videos teaching fielding techniques. He still runs camps during the offseason. It’s a passion for him. And their success in 2021 seemed to be a positive test case.There are a couple reasons why, he believes, this year will be different.
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