Milwaukee Brewers hitting coordinator Brenton Del Chiaro recently joined The Call Up Podcast and discussed a wide variety of topics ranging from the organizations hitting philosophy, evaluations of prospects Joey Wiemer, Jeferson Quero, Sal Frelick, Luis Lara, and much more. When talking about the Brew Crew’s approaching hitting across their system he summed it up by saying “you be you”.
Brenton Del Chiaro, Milwaukee Brewers hitting coordinator, has a perfect summarization of the organization’s hitting philosophy.
You be you is a phrase that the Milwaukee Brewers preach and display in several locations. Whether it is in the batting catches at their Arizona Complex or at American Family Field the message is printed for all to see. Coaching wise this principal has been adopted and rather than change who a player is the staff works with what and how players do things.
“One thing I’m really proud of between our major and minor league levels is that we have really adopted this saying of you be you and we are fully committed to that. We have it up in our cages in Arizona and in Milwaukee.”
“The thing we have to understand is that we have people who are unique movers… and the thing that we recognized early and that we have maintained is that if you take these moves away.. we aren’t sure that we can get them back. We need to understand that before we even attempt to have that conversation.”
“So you need to understand the movements of the players and the athletes and what makes them special and good…and really pay attention to that. Once we really understand that before we present something to a player we need to ask the question can we reproduce this move if what we are presenting doesn’t work.”
“The thing is I think it is more powerful for the athlete to be able to figure out the adjustments that they need to make. We give them the supporting evidence and it’s like what do you think is the best way possible to do this and make this adjustment.”
Throughout this summarization of the Brewers you be you mind set Brenton Del Chiaro specifically gave examples of players both currently in their system and prior players. Joey Wiemer and Luke Adams are two unique movers that he went into more details about and he also talked about Keston Hiura’s leg kick.
The full interview can be found in the video below.
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It’s a great summarization but it’s a HORRIBLE philosophy created by the bad cultural climate that has dominated since the 90s and created soft athletes.
AND, it gives the team plausible deniability when a player doesn’t make it (we gave them the data and supporting evidence, so it’s on them if they refuse to change or the change doesn’t work).
Throughout history if someone was doing a bad job at anything, we TOLD them so they would improve and demanded they do better.
This is weak pretending to be open and caring.