Christian Yelich says Barry Bonds taught him a drill that changed his career
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Yelich shared all kinds of secrets on this episode of Sequence: ua-cam.com/video/CleAswt-hng/v-deo.html
can u give me a shoutout. PLEASE. i sub to u and like all of ur videos
Can you please do a review of the liverpool v Barcelona .. 4 - 0 liverpool comeback.
Also Milwaukee boy missin our dude this year during this
Hank Aaron #1 Natural Home Run Hitter💯💥⚾Cheaters WILL NEVER BE in THE HALL.
Hiring Barry Bonds as a hitting coach was probably the best thing the Marlins have done in the last 10 years.
Modeling your swing after a guy who raked (even before he ate a balanced breakfast) is a solid idea. When I was a kid I based my swing off of a mix of Ken Griffey Jr. and Sadaharu Oh, and I learned a shit ton just watching film of them. I can only imagine what it would be like to have them actually coach me.
Trevor Ward Since when?
Sb nation reference?
@@JTurn916 He's been a "special advisor'" to the CEO of the Giants since 2017. As always who the heck knows what "special advisor" means (it probably varies greatly in every situations). He's occasionally at Giants games and tends to be at most ceremonial stuff just like Mays.
@Trevor Ward not as hitting coach. Barry Bonds doesn't have the patience to deal with hitters on a daily basis. He gets too frustrated that they don't see what he sees.
@ what is?
I’m not sure why Barry Bonds was fired from the Marlins. He seemed to do a really good job and the players really liked him.
God forbid the Marlins do anything right
Chase Anderson oh yeah ...
bonds* Cheated so even the Marlins couldn't. Look past that💯
@@makpunchout3315 you sound like a perfect Marlin employee
So he's available? Let me call my front office...
I appreciate Yelich being simple and creative with his language - too many players try to pose professionally and refrain from any kind of personality in the process.
That's one of the reasons he got me back into rooting for the Brewers, after decades away from watching baseball. Anyone can fake being a nice guy, but Yeli's too candid for his sincerity to be fake. (Remember him calling out Machado as a dirty player, and calling out the pitcher who tried to insinuate the Brewers were stealing signs?) He's a good kid.
@@darkarima Before I go Google it, why did he call Machado dirty?
ali bakr probably because of what he did to Jesus Agular
@@bigfrogfella It ab-so-lutely was. Game 4, 2018 NLCS.
The guy is from socal, talking like a real cali boy lol
Cant wait to apply this principle to my next backyard game of whiffleball.
I noticed playing whiffle ball all you need is backspin to hit it far
Calvin Balanda not for me, I just normal swing and hit the ball hella far
gonna leave some nasty welts on them boyz.
Any one else think that Yelich looks like Sheen from Jimmy Neutron?
"Look, TV!"
Yeah if Yeli didn’t have a chin lol
😂😂
Holy fuck you're right
LMAOOOOO
looks like Sheen gave up the action figures and gave a few at bats in the Majors
People forget Bonds was mashing in Pittsburgh when he was 185 lbs.
People don't forget that. The people who don't talk about those days are too young to have known in the first place. Also, nobody has ever said Bonds is a bad player. One problem is that you take a guy who would normally (natural talent and hard work) hit 40HR (Bonds) in a season, add steroids and now you have 70+HRs in a season. There were plenty of players who took steroids and only hit 10-15HRs in a season. The MAIN problem is that people don't realize that steroids make a crappy players, decent.... a decent player, good......a good player, an all-star..... an all-star an MVP.....an MVP, a HOF....... a HOF, legendary. Bonds probably fell somewhere in the MVP category, MAYBE HOF (without steroids). He may have been in the HOF without steroids, due to his combination of decent power and great speed.
Best year 34 HRs with pitt..Steroid poppin a-hole ..A cheat
@@6412mars He hit over 300 if I remember correctly. I hated Bonds with a passion. I'm a A's fan but the dude was one of the greatest hitters ever pre and post Steroids/HGH.
Right, he was easily a HOFer without the steroids. It's sad to think about
@@6412mars His HR numbers were solid in the early mid 90's. The massive weight gain came around 97/98 I want to say. One offseason dude gained like 40 lbs. Lol.
When Bonds gives hitting advice you damn well better listen. Mexican supplements or not the guy could crush it off anyone.
Because of "Mexican supplements"
Neno Branco steroids don’t hit it for you...I’m not condoning it, they may make it go farther, but I still respect the steroid era because most of the other players were juicing too. Only ones I can (almost) comfortably say weren’t are Griffey, Chipper, and Jeter. And we still don’t know 100% sure on those guys. Bonds was already a hof player before the juicing. He gets a bad wrap. But I get why with the whole even clean competition efforts.
Him and Griffey are the two greatest players of their era. Griffey the greatest clean player, Bonds the greatest “dirty” player. A lot of players were middling players that turned into stars or stars that turned into superstars when they took steroids. Bonds was a different breed. He was already at that level that all of the steroid users wanted to achieve before he took them, after he took them he was essentially just a superstar turning into an even better superstar.
Anybody who says Steroids made him as good as he is, are just idiots. Many players took steroids and NOBODY was in the same league as Bonds. He's arguably the greatest player of all time, he just happened to take steroids. Steroids don't make you hit over .300 for your career
I know. He taught a small guy how to crush homeruns.
I grew up in SF. My dad took me to several games very year. We used to sit in the bleachers for a $1 ticket at candlestick, mondays were half off so 50 cent tickets for kids bleachers!
Anyways.... Barry is the greatest, EVER.
I am so blessed to have seen him play probably 100 times in my life. Every at bat was a thrill.
They didn’t pitch to this man in his prime, it was. “Hack a ShaQ “ type strategy, because he was Shaq like dominating.
He is right up there with the all time greats of any sport.
The only player who was so good they wouldn't let him play
The Bonds Squad
amen brother, 1 dollar bleacher bums for life. WHATS THE MATTER WITH BASEBALL, ROB MANFRED
It's sad that Bonds is ostracized from mlb. He may have used steroids, but so did probably half the league at the time. He's one of the greatest baseball minds of all time and should be a part of mlb.
@@qwaszx2 what? He used PEDS...how is that not violating the rules?
This is ONLY an opinion but I think the hardest part of batting (at that level) is making contact the PED's only maybe added a few extra feet to balls that would've been homers anyway
kaii231 he was a major prick. To teammates, team staff, media and fans. Not surprising at all that nobody is going to bring him in
Gurvinder Parmar never failed a test
half???? I remember being young and naive ;) It's likely upwards of-- 80% and in some sports 100%
"he got me in there and spread me out wide"
Gavinthe Boss big Barry
Bonds teaching dudes to pound balls off.
Barry Bondage
"Then he shoved a needle into my right ass cheek. Was super weird but I noticed from that day on I hit tons of homers"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The swing comparation at the end really ties the whole convo together, well done!
Finally....Some players now share why Bonds was able to hit many home runs!!! Bonds is a genius and he was always trying to improve his swing and watching videos of the pitchers he was going to face... During 2001 regular season ESPN Magazine made an interview to Bonds and they ask him what kind of swing you ll choose? Contact swing or power swing? Bonds answers: " Contact swing". You dont give credit to Bonds great achievements because you doesnt want to know how Bonds worked more, practiced more and spent more time watching his matchups against every pitcher. Now Yelich finally explain why it's so easy for him to hit more than 35 homers every season..
Why is bonds* not in Baseball Hall of Fame?🤔
Greatest hitter of all time
Frank Silva na he’s the third best. Behind Ruth and Ted Williams
MAK1 Steroids
Steroids help, too
Damn that's so cool. By far the most interesting approach I've ever heard to creating a good bat path. Different things work for different people and stoked for Christian that he found what works for him
Yelich looks like a young, healty and drug free Steve O
Nah Pete Davidson
@@drewtower3402 You're closer.
bruh yeet i was about to say the same thing
He looks like if Pete Davidson sheen from jimmy neutron and Steve o had a kid
That was the best baseball interview I have ever seen. Yelich is a natural in all categories -- hearing how he was taught by Bonds was enlightening! Showing the side-by-side of them both hitting was sweet. Thanks to Trevor for letting Yelich talk without interruption. Yelich is like DiMaggio, with a much nicer peronality.
Bonds also hit in the same style as Tony Gwynn..
Practicing OFF OF A TEE to hit the ball in the direction of which it was pitched across the plate to you - inside (pull), middle, or outside (opposite field).
Jeff Pentland, Barry's hitting coach at Arizona State, taught that same drill to me years ago when I began coaching with the Marlins. He also added point of contact, based on pitch location, to the equation.
Like if Bonds deserves to be in the Hall. He's without a doubt one of the best hitters of all time. I don't care if he did roids. It didn't play a huge role in his greatness. Barry was the most skilled, smartest hitter in his prime. Everyone was doing roids at that time, but no one hit like Barry. Steroids can't help skill and technique. The only people keeping him out the hall is people that never played the game.
Roids probably did play a role in bis greatness though. He hit 73 homers at age 36. Do you know how hard it is to do anything athletic at age 36, on organic kale and box jumps? Then multiply by 153 games.
You can say "yeah but he was great before that," and he was. But he wasn't the God he turned into IN HIS LATE 30s
He was better than everyone in the league before the steroids. He really was the goat
@Dubious57 he was part of the 200/200 club before roids.
I would rather see pete rose in first...
The Hall is a joke without Barry
So cool to see the channel grow to you interviewing big leaguers from when you first started doing break downs.
Bonds was my favorite player growing up. Yelich is my favorite current player. Very cool!
For some reason this story reminds me of Creed teaching Michael to "mop" in "Agent Michael Scarn: Threat Level Midnight"
Cherokee Jack 😂
And that always reminded me of the Karate Kid: “sand the deck”.
Thats how you do the Scarn
@@storiedworlds6261 That's the whole point. That Michael Scott is just taking it straight from Karate Kid.
@CarbonComs yeah, I don’t think the OP got it though.
Yep, a ton of dudes batting averages went up when Bonds was the hitting coach, but ppl dont wana talk about the fact that he was actually doing his job lol
“He got me in there and he spread me out really wide”...😳😳😳
Context is really important lol
That’s what she said
Great insight and story. This is what social media should be all about.
Aye yeli got the mustache going lmao
Scumstache
Loved the juice years. Yeah, I said it. It was pure, pure fun.
Bring back the steroids.
Barry taught me this drill back when I was bat boy for them in the 90s... Dude is awesome..
Pittsburgh or SF?
When I played I was always told to swing down just like Yelich is explaining. I moved alway from this in my teaching by listing to mike trout hitting techniques. When you swing down from your back hand you cover more of the plate, the bat stays in the zone for a longer period of time. The way Yelich explain you swing straight down. The bat is in the strike zone for a split second. I believe both ways of hitting are great if you can see the ball off the bat. Great video thanks for sharing.
I don't care what anybody says 60 or 70% of guys were taking steroids at the same time and they couldn't do what Barry Bonds did. Such a beautiful swing man.
Look at Barry man, so inspirational
At least 90
100% of the guys couldnt do what Barry did. His OBP and average numbers during those years were insane and will never be repeated, not for 1000 years.
this was very insightful, thanks for doing these. Also the production value on Sequence is amazing too.
the resemblance of their swings in the thumbnail... bruhhhh
The video showed it synced up which was nuts
As a Miami fan watching him a lot, he really did seem to improve from 2016-18 with us, this seems to be a huge part of that. Then he exploded in Milwaukee and is one of the best in the league now. So happy he's at least got a competitive team now
This is the most fascinating thought process on power hitting I've ever heard
Damn didn’t even realize that this was just posted. Was wondering why it had no views or anything
Dat kidd same with this video that he just posted! .. weird. ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html
Steven L you can’t trick me, I know the Rick roll link
Koolkyle 7 dude... forget you for commenting that
It's definitely been posted before because I saw it months ago.
There’s still a false narrative that bonds was nothing before roids with people who never watched him. Man really raked before roids, he just got greedy and wanted more attention and accolades by the turn of the century. He was an incredibly talented player who was boosted to being unrealistically dominant in the batters box after he started eating his wheaties
He was being surpassed by less talented hitters and he knew why. I think it had more to do with proving the point that he was the greatest, not greed.
I have literally NEVER heard this false narrative you speak of. EVERYONE always acknowledges that he was VERY good even without roids.
Demetrius Middleton I’m talking bout with gen z kids on the internet who never watched him play, everyone who watched him play knows how talented he was
Demetrius Middleton you’d be surprised, just in this comments section there’s a ton of idiots that say steroids are the only reason for his success
3 MVPS from 1990-1993 while he weighed about 180 lbs. I may be mistaken but I believe no one else in history has more than 3 MVP’s. Guy led the mlb in homeruns and WAR from 1990-1997, and the earliest he could have started taking roids was 96 or 97 even though he was still pretty skinny those years.
this is so great...love this inside story that many people dont know about ...
Have they named a street in Milwaukee after Jeter yet?
God bless him
AHADHKWIWEU THIS IS SENDING MEEE
Yeah, Herpes Blvd
😂😂😂
We all saw he had all the potential in the world when he was in Miami. Good on him for working hard and unlocking it. Kids an all world stud
Some people forget that Bonds was one of the best pure hitter ever before he beefed up with steroids.
Thanks for posting, guys. Really interesting listen! I'd love to hear other players talk about mechanical stuff like this.
sweet stache Yeli
Great story! Awesome to see the comparison at the end!
Thanks for covering this I needed some more explanation
3:12 this is gold
When you see Barry's swings at the end of the video, you see he took almost no stride at all
His swing was all from the hip rotation up. All upper body.
I'm sure he has a logic behind it, probably being the more stable base keeps his head level and the swing more accurate
great post, man. thanks
Old school technique. Swinging down almost like a chop but not quite. I remember being taught this and it improved my hitting ten fold.
Hell ya that's how I was taught used to crack the ball shots in the gap with no fence had to leg it out
Where was this info when I was playing!!!!? So cool. And makes do much sense.
Awesome interview
Pretty cool to be shown how to do the drill by a legend who obviously still has the skills.
I adore Barry bonds, but I did hear a story that Giancarlo was having trouble identifying the curve and was swinging at them in the dirt and apparently Barry told him, “why don’t you just not swing at it?” Lmao
Barry apparently could see how the ball rotates because he could see the stitching on the ball and how it was moving mid pitch. I don't think he gets that almost everyone doesn't have that eyesight
@@TheOldSchoolGamer93 well the average mlb player eyesight is 20/12 but that aint even enough
When Ted Williams was manager he told his hitters to always take the first pitch like he did. They had to explain that umpires were giving him balls because he was Ted Williams, and that they wouldn't have the same effect.
Bonds was HOF pre steroids. So even tho I consider him a cheater, I do acknowledge that he knows how to hit
Same.
I mean steroids aren't going to teach you how to hit the ball.
@@ryanshaw196 No, but it helps you hit it further.
You're not cheating if it isn't against the rules
Barry Bonds hand eye coordination was excellent, bat control, and his brain to process pitch recognition. Yes he took PED, which boost him from Great player to All time great player with extra boost in power numbers. He was ahead of his peers during his playing days, but those PED just put him in another universe where only special players go to.
Notice how Yelich tips his cap to Barry...and how Statcast Stanton couldn't get along with him. Who's been better ever since?
Stanton has been hurt.
@@virajs.8864 even if Stanton were healthy there's no question Yelich has been better since they both left Miami
The whole truth! Barry did beat Stanton in a Home run Contest at 51
I’m a diehard Yankee fan & even I’ll say Yelich has been the better of the two. Stanton never plays more than 100 games in a whole season. Yelich is a warrior. There’s honestly no comparison.
@@jamaalhorton2343 Did someone record it?
Great interview!
Incredible insight! Ball control goes back a lon gway. John McGraw, Cobb and Lajoie comes to mind.
My coach has told me to swing down/chop at it during practice to help with my swing level. It really does end up helping later on
Wow, that side by side of Yelich and Bonds is incredible. Apparently Yeli forgot this drill this year in Milwaukee though...hopefuly he can recover his form next year.
I tried this today and it was fantastic. It really works. Thanks! I wasted so much time watching bs from other UA-camrs. Thanks for fixing my swing with a swing that requires half the amount of effort. Like Yelich says it's not about the body 1st.
@Chris Ayers 1st try swinging down on the pitch. Chop it so the ball is redirected straight down hitting the front of the plate. Get a feel for the motion of chopping the ball. Then aim 6 feet in front of the plate still chopping the ball. Then line drives which will be missiles. Then change your angle slightly so the ball will rise at a homerun angle. The chopping motion will automatically create backspin on the ball which will help the ball rise making the ball go further. The chopping is a feel. It requires a lot of hand eye coordination. If you time it right you will be rewarded... :)
Product of the Valley 💎
A video demo of this drill would be great to see!!
"barry got me in there, and spread me out really wide".. sounds hot af
Woah 😳 🤣🤣 Looks like Miller likes his coffee ☕ black.
@Cody in Texas I like Bonds
Cody in Texas It is very hot. Sleeping with Barry Bonds. Don’t act like you wouldn’t do it. So what if we are both guys... nobody ever said it was wrong. We should contact Barry together ;)
yelich did say it was like 120 in there
@@jletienne5 LOL!
Such beautiful swings!
love this man. gonna give this a try someday!
amazing content 👏
maaan those "swing up" teachers must be seething LMAO best homerun hitter ever and one of the best hitters in baseball today saying to swing down... interesting
What if this is just a ploy to trick other hitters into doing the opposite? 🤔🤭
If you go look at Yelich’s swing, he doesn’t swing down at the ball. He goes down initially but ends up having a slight uppercut to his swing, allowing his bat to be in the zone for a very long time
Reading “Swing Kings” right now, too.
So interesting.
@@JWhiz bruh you just said he doesnt swing down and then said his hands go down initially....
@@Ethan-nf1pd Obviously he knows Yeli's swing better than Yeli does. XD
Although to be fair, Yeli may not want to give away all of the elements of a good swing that he's figured out. Heck, he may not even be consciously aware of what his body has figured out. At Yeli's level, his thought processes have to go far beyond conscious speed - hundreds of muscles have to react to the ball's position and direction, millisecond by millisecond.
One other thing that comes to mind wrt "swing down": He may be alluding to shorthand that MLB hitters fully understand but the layman understands partially or not at all - kinda like how business-inspirational books have given us scads of shorthand like "agile" and "guerilla marketing". For instance "spread me out really wide" (1:30-1:35) is easy enough to figure out with some thought, but I'm clueless on "leaking" (4:43-4:48).
Sadahara Oh with Tokyo Giants hit 868 homers. No PED
Love the Yelich content
knew what he was going to say before the video started. I saw Barry telling a giants player about getting your hands through the zone and not dragging the bat years ago.
Amazing how this young man is talking bout how Bonds helped his batting and y'all still talking about steroids. Let that shit gooooo!!!! He still will be one of the greatest of all the time whether you like it or not!!!!
That was a super pause. Barry spread me out wide.😂
This was an awesome baseball story
I miss Yelich as a Marlins fan but I’m glad he’s finally getting the success he was capable of.
This is amazing 🎉🎉🎉
Even with most seats empty, it was an honor (for us few Marlins fans left) to have Yelich, Stanton, Ozuna, Ichiro and Bonds as hitting coach for those short lived seasons.
This really put it all together. Tremendous amount of respect for Yelich, the guy is of great character. 2016 he hit more home runs than he did in the first 3 years of his career. He could always hit, Bonds just helped him unlock that next level that's turned him into a perennial MVP candidate. That's awesome, so awesome they have the same swing. Everybody wanna hate Bonds, and to his credit the reason he did it was fair. He told Ken Griffey Jr the reason he was going to take steroids was because everyone else was like Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa and look at how much attention everyone is paying them? Well I'll show them, I'm gonna break the single season record and the all time record. And I believe at the time he wasn't taking steroids yet. He already knew he was that great and if they can do it why couldn't he?
I could watch an hour of this.
This is gonna change my swing for sure
Can you break down Jose Urena intentionality hitting Ronald Acuna Jr on the first pitch
i miss baseball so much!!🥺
“He spread me out really wide.” 😮😲 Holy fish paste, that was crazy
screaming at the top of my lungs: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELICH
miss you in Marlins uniform
miss baseball
This is the sensible answer to the extreme launch angle people. Although obviously not everyone has the bat control of a Yelich, let alone Bonds.
What does he mean by the front of the plate? Just when the ball reaches that point or was the ball sitting on the front of the plate and he was hitting it off the ground?
Pitch comes in like normal and you try to jackhammer it straight down so it slams off the front of the plate. Brilliant drill, some kids I coach have very loopy swings so will try this out.
Is there a video demonstrating what he’s talking about? I’m having trouble visualizing what he’s talking about. 🤔
Learned from the greatest 👌🏾
Yelich is the goat
Awesome story, and the video comparison at the end was perfect. Watch on 1.25x speed cuz Yelich kinda pauses a lot when he talks
Nothing like remembering one of the many great players the Marlins once had before Jeter came in and traded them off to build up our "farm league" 😔
Edit: Stanton, Dietrich, Yelich, Ozuna, Hand, Realmuto, and a few more that are doing amazing things with other teams.
To be fair Hand was terrible with Miami and was claimed off waivers by the padres.
It’s crazy that they don’t have the best Farm system for the past 3+ seasons at least. Incompetence at its finest
@@samfisher170 Tell me about it
@@stevenjeon8600 I agree man. All went on to be amazing players in other places. At least I was able to enjoy our 97 and 03 championships. Those times are long gone.
@@timr5185 Lol such horrible management
When did Pete Davidson take up baseball?
This is awesome
Is there anywhere where we can see this drill in action so we can try it?
Sure steroids helped Bonds, but there is a reason they are called performance enhancing drugs. They are enhancing your performance, you still need to train. Barry Bonds is still a legend.
Exactly. They help hitters continue to train and hit without their muscles getting as sore.
Truth
And Bonds had an eye at the plate that was only rivaled by Ted Williams.
smh sure they used steroids but They won awards before they started using peds. That doesn’t mean that they used them to be good, they used them to keep themselves healthy
True but keep in mind without the PEDs he wouldn't have gotten 700 homers. Probably would have top out around 550 to 600 which would still have been more than HOF worthy. He and Clemens are examples of great players who happens to cheat. Altuve as well though in a different way.
Someone show this to Yelich again. Bring Barry Bonds in as a hitting coach for Yelich for the rest of the year.
Your front side has to stay closed long enough for the slight forward momentum (from your stride) to be converted into rotation. If you let your hips go early, you might as well just stand still and hit without a stride
Because of Ichiro I watched the Marlins a lot.
Rich Waltz and Todd Hollandsworth always always said Yelich is going win triple crown. Crazy.
Damm dawg u couldn't do this shit in Miami 😔
Bonds droppin' knowledge. Very cool 😎
I never thought of trying to get backspin off the bat, I always thought you were lucky just to make contact, forget trying to do anything with it. To the batting cages!!!