Fear the Smoak
He's stopped fearing you.

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Right before he unloaded a 415-foot home run off C.J. Wilson on Wednesday night, Justin Smoak sunk into his zone withOUT his face sinking into its usual exaggerated grimace:

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And right after he made contact, Smoak leaned over into an easy glide withOUT digging in his back foot and scampering madly down the 1B line:

orm of snarl, "warning" a threatening predator to back away.  Neither are conducive to the kind of relaxed focus that allows a batter to read a pitch.

In the image above, Smoak prepares to hit against C.J. Wilson and ... He's. Not. Grimacing.

 

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Chambliss likes what he has seen.
"Before there were many moving parts to his swing. Now we are seeing one complete motion," he said. "It is a significant change."

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