It was sad to read about baseball player Allan Dykstra and his hip problems, which may prevent him from moving up to the major leagues. According to him there’s a possibility of the injury occurring again. Rather than dwelling on the injury I was disappointed in that the reporter did not report information that could be of value to up-and-coming players.
For example according to Dykstra, since there’s nothing that he could do about it except try to prolong the injury from appearing again. To that end, he is doing stretching with extra work. However, the kinds of stretches or what kind of extra work is being done is not brought out. But yet, this is important information.
In addition, according to the article, “He’s also working to adjust his swing to the pro game.” But I have never heard of a swing needing to be adjusted to the pro game. If you have a great hitter in high school or college why would anyone want to change the swing since the skills on the pro level are the same as they are on the high school and collegiate levels?
Even worse was that the reporter never asked what the changes were that he needed. If batters have to change their swing for the pro game this is very important information for all up-and-coming players. This is another example of articles being written more for general information rather than offering anything specific for athletes and coaches.
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