I remember the first time I watched this video was before my first game my sophomore year of high school. I hit my first home run in my first at bat and went from a bench player platooning RF to the clean up hitter. To this day I still refer to this video when I hit a slump. Jose Bautista has been my hero ever since and I credit him with helping me launch my career. I currently play in college and while I've given up my dreams of getting drafted I hope to finish my career on a high note.

@caucasianboyz

9 жыл бұрын

KJ Mac Dude, why would you give up your dreams of getting drafted, you got this far, why not try to go farther, I'm a sophomore right now and i strive to play baseball till i physically can't anymore, Stay with your dreams, you'll regret it

@marshawnlunch6762

7 жыл бұрын

Jose r Bro get back to baseball and practice/condition for a year and then go to an open tryout.Just because you aren't in college doesn't mean there isn't hope.Keep grinding and chase your dreams man

@Njliving22

7 жыл бұрын

All we have is our dreams. Most people are aren't good at anything and they have to spend the majority of their lives working 5 days a week doing something they dont like doing. Fight for your dreams. It will be the best feeling in the world when you achieve them. Better than money, sex, best feeling in the world. No one can take it away from you.

@trknzach5671

7 жыл бұрын

Michael May he is intense player that plays hard.

@tomp5183

7 жыл бұрын

I am In a slump and have the first game of my sophomore year in two days lol, what a coincidence! I hope it works out for me as well as it did for you man, congrats

This makes me respect Jose Bautista a lot more

No beard = bad Jose Beard = good Jose

That season is one of the greatest seasons in modern baseball. .302 AVG .447! OBP with 132! Walks. 43 homers. He had a 182 OPS+! Not only that, he had gold glove play at 3rd base!

See I can see why people would hate Bautista (those clips in a compilation) but here, he's tolerable, almost soft-spoken.

@loonglionheart

3 жыл бұрын

Bautista speaks fluent English, every single words he punctuated clear enough though... Rougned Odor is no match even in language efficiency 😂

It's amazing how many people I know have assumed he takes steroids because his homerun numbers went way up. No, in fact this guy is a true inspiration of how you can accomplish something great like that with a good work ethic and true determination.

@basicmeme1040

Жыл бұрын

He probably did add some more gear to his cycle

Jose Bautista is a real living human being! I saw him earlier in the season when the Blue Jays were playing in Atlanta. My seats were right next to Jose Bautista just in foul territory. He's a real person!

I was watching an interview with Anthopoulos earlier, and he mentioned something that no one here has pointed out...even before 2010 Jose was hitting hard liners to every part of the field, and he already had natural power. All he did was change his mechanics at the plate, which helped him combine the two, with consistency.

I've been a Blue Jays fan since 1999 & I've never seen a player w/ the pop that Jose had...He was the one of the first superstars the Jays had during the early 2000's ...Roy Halladay was a beast no question ...but Jose was the one that helped put the Blue jays back on the map

I'm a big pirates fan and I loved bautista when he played here. He was a solid defender and the hitting wasnt quite there, but he worked very hard. He was very strong back in pittsburgh and he doesnt look much different now that hes hitting 40-50 hr a yr. No doubt hes a natural player

I played high-level baseball for 5 years between 13-17 and i've always used the same stance more or less with a bit of a tweek here or there. When I was 16 my teams assistant coach played professionally in the minors for a few years before injuring himself and he tweeked my mechanics and timing on the swing and i went from a 1-2 guy to a middle of the order because i was hitting deep liners to the gap with authority. Proper mechanics and timing while hitting makes a huge difference.

One of the sweetest swings I've ever seen.

Wow what an accomplished athlete! So proud he is a blue jay...please please please don't ever leave

he started his swing or load as I should say earlier letting his natural body movement to swing smoothly through the zone rather than being rushed because starting late this guy isnt on steriods. HE IS RAW

Welcome to the Level of Excellence Jose!

he looks like drake with a beard

@gavinmaloney214

9 жыл бұрын

Lol

@87jkib

8 жыл бұрын

well, he is playing for a Canadian team 😂

@jacks1820

8 жыл бұрын

haha true true

@connor7514

6 жыл бұрын

J Arnold not really

This is proof to all you kids out there, even a little tweak in your hitting approach can be the difference between run of the mill player and superstar.

Bautista has the best power in the bigs. Hes not the steroid type, he just has a extreme powerful swing. Im sure he gets tested mor than anyone. Good luck in rehab

9 years old, hitting 9th in the line up getting about 5 base hits. Spent several days a week in the off season hitting for hours, next year hitting 4th hitting .600 with the most extra base hits on the team. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT BIG

It's not steroids. He is just a student of the game. Like Edgar Martinez.

This guy's a monster. And fun to watch.

1:12 I like to imagine Eduardo Perez is thinking "Oh shit, maybe if I had done that I wouldn't have been so terrible in my career."

he is awesome i hear my coaches say not to have a high leg kick but when you start it that early it works nice an smooth. THUMBS UP

watching this gave me shivers !!!!!! GO JAYS #JoeyBats !

~You helped a lot hitters with Slow and Early

Thank you Jesus. He's having fun now

@DaComebakKid Eh probably not. I only uploaded this one here because it's an ESPN feature... And I kinda have a bad feeling this might get flagged for copyright. And I'd rather not have copyright strikes on my main account. I just use this account for uploading random stuff.

Great Hitter.

he doesn't look like a freak of nature... the guy's just a fuckin beast

@TheTigersWingsFan He won't disapoint. Bautista helped me win my first fantasy baseball championship last year when I traded my number one pick, Miguel Cabrera, for him. Bautista is the real deal, you can put him in OF, and 3rd base, which was very useful and key to my sucess.

This guy is a beast!! Best power hitter in the mlb

he's NOT on steroids. hasn't gained significant weight or muscle mass, and, more importantly, his head size hasn't increased. there's a thing called mechanics that you can change, which he has for the better, and you can see the results. in baseball, even the smallest of changes can cause drastic results.

forgive my novice eye, but it seems to me his bat is in the zone of the ball a LOT longer now, maybe 2X to 3X longer; really like the way both his feet swivel, putting all of both his hips into his new swing;

Anybody who says steroids made him into a homerun leader, doesnt have enougjh focus to notice that he dramitically changed his swing. His swing his so long now thats how he gets all the power (longer swing =increased torque) but it takes a lot of other talent and skill to square it up not an inch to high or low and not a tenth of a millisecond too soon or late.

So annoying when people that think they know baseball and what it takes to succeed, try and taint one of the cleanest,hardest working stars the game has right now !....". Oh that guy has never had 30 HRs before..... Must be a roid head "... Give me a break ! They act like, way before steroids were ever used, that a baseball player never hit 50 Home runs...!?!? Sorry, but there really is CLEAN superstars that play the game, and Joey Batts is one of them.

@michaelmay3641

7 жыл бұрын

Trevor S before roids no one went from 50 hr in his career to 50 hr in a season

@Stormie33

7 жыл бұрын

+Michael May Before the steroid era, there were like 10 guys who had 50 HR seasons. Citing that sample size as being able to prove anything is absolutely silly.

Roids doesn't make your hitting techniques and eye coordination better just strength but José always had power just had a slow bat

@El_BoogeyMan_

8 жыл бұрын

You must not know what roofs is than kid. Those drugs can make you see throw and hit much better not just strength it also makes your instincts a lot better

@michaelmay3641

7 жыл бұрын

Texas Fan 214 yay dumb ass he had a slow bat took roids and his arms were stronger so he had i faster bat

@trknzach5671

6 жыл бұрын

Michael May you can't get that much bat speed from your arms.he needed to start earlier so he could get on more pitches especially fastballs

slow and early actually does work. I use 2 start my load ahead of time and found it very effective. But, coaches saw me doing it so often that they tried to "change what wasn't broken" and make me start later, and because of that my batting average went down a lot at the time.

@Bdurden892

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha.. load.

I said this 3 months ago.. Back when AJ burnett, along with the Pirates, were still considered bad. Both are having awesome seasons.

The reporter was actually a good baseball player for a while.

Regarding possible PED use, MLB is more strict than ever, and I'm sure amidst Bautista's breakout season in 2010, he was tested numerous times. Because back in the day, a guy that went from 18-22 home runs a reason to 40 or 50+, was usually juicing. That being said, I know Jose wasn't juicing, there is no way he'd get away with it in today's MLB. Scouts, trainers, coaches, a lot of people Jose met prior to his trade to Toronto, all praised his potential for power. It was Dwayne Murphy who helped Jose harness that power, make some slight adjustments, and he went on a tear. Now, look at the subsequent seasons, Jose hit 43 home runs in 2011, but the following 7 seasons averaged only 26 a season, why is that? Well that is a combination of 2 things, the first being age. Jose didn't have those breakout seasons until he was 29-30, so the numbers were bound to drop little by little from 30-35 and onward. Then you have the type of hitter Jose is, a lot of power, and a lot of strikeouts. When guys become a bigger threat at the plate, pitchers study them more closely to figure them out. In 2010-2011, pitchers made more mistakes against him, because prior to those seasons he wasn't as big a threat. When you become a notorious power hitter, pitchers can expose your weak zones and start to pitch around you more, figuring you out. But man, if Jose wasn't fun to watch those few seasons.

can someone please tell me what the red thing on the bat is i cant remember what they are caled

that was enjoyable

Jose doesn't "get his foot down early" he gets started earlier but keeps his rhythm the whole time

hey u have a new channel. nice will there be more tsn/sportscentre vids here as well? agn, thx.

Baseball is a game all about minor adjustments. The slightest adjustments make huge differences at the major league level. Jose Bautista and Chris Davis are in the same boat. They both made a small adjustment and it did wonders for both. If you look, Chris Davis is more upright, therefore giving him more leverage and simplified his swing as a whole to be more consistent. Just because he's gained muscle doesn't mean he's on roids. He was a monster just waiting to come out.

For those of you saying he took steroids: He looks the same as he did before. Josh Donaldson weighs more than he does and hasn't hit over 40 home runs. Bautista gained confidence with his approach to hitting the baseball. I small change to a swing can change a slap hitter or singles hitter to a gap or home run hitter. It's not easy to hit a round ball with a round bat. It takes years of practice with quality swings to achieve this. It's youtube. It's for entertainment purposes.

Anyone still have the full version of this?

Back leg should control front leg. Isobaseball teaches the mechanics of the Perfect Swing. Baustista learned to have a slow front side. This improved his timing. He talked about hands. Everyone, please understand that teaching the science of the perfect swing is very difficult, but if you find the right resources, tools and coach - it can be done. I am telling you that Isobaseball is going to change the way the perfect swing is being taught.

He IS the best Power Hitter in the game.

Wow...talk about improvement lol. That's crazy!! Very inspirational. Just goes to show that ppl can give you great constructive criticism, but until it actually clicks with you personally, it won't make much difference. Awesome.

Leaving the Pirates will make anyone better.

the thing about him is that most hr hitters only him homers at there home ball parks, he hits them everywhere and that's why he has so many HR'S

Keep dang back foot planted, no shifting while pitch in motion, use of 77 to have lower bat hand stick not slip, coil up use the body good. The fact the revelation came against MIN makes sense😊

He definitely isn't on steriods...doesn't have a shorter neck ("bigger head") and has practically the same body mass and muscular strength as before. A friend of mine who does MMA said that Jose probably did testosterone replacement therapy, which is likely how Braun got the positive test. I hope Jose didn't do that, but clearly he is a naturally gifted hitter, regardless. Anyone who says he's on steriods doesn't know shit.

i am a skeptic too, but look at how his swing changed i mean he really did change a lot

One of the best players in baseball when he's healthy.

what do you base your opinion on?

Now the best at the bat flip

what is the thing on his bat

They do Test you off season and regular season look it up before commenting a person comment

Anything is possible.....

omg this quality

do you ever notice when showing Jays highlights, they often will not use the Sportsnet feed for highlights. And when they do, they use the FAN 590 voices rather than that from Sportsnet.

no its not a donut its something like one but the packet that comes in has 3 different sizes one for speed power and something else i just forgot what it was called

he will be a home run derby winner and a world seires

He even used his turn signal.

Pirates have one of the best records in baseball this year..

this dude is nasty. Top 5 players in baseball

that and the fact that he's been tested more times in a single season than what the rules say.

請問José Bautista改了什麼？改成高抬腿嗎？ 英文不好聽不懂>

how he changed his swing - Left the Pirates

Taking steroids would decrease your muscle reaction time, thereby allowing you to wait longer before deciding to swing. It gives you roughly 7-10% more time to see the pitch, though it doesn't directly stop you from holding up. Bautista's clean.

look at him, man. he's not dong steroids.

@patanatorx I like red sox too, but it's not about a team it's about a good baseball player.

Timing! He started his load to swing earlier and slower. He used to be late, now he's on time.

Perdone pero José Batista es dominicano o mulsaman mil disculpa si ofendo boricuas con bstista

Bautista has done it for 2 seasons and never got caught. Ryan Braun has been doing it for one season and he got caught.

I had the same problem i aint hitting all those HRs but the numbers looking better

I dont know much about steroids so i have no clue what your saying but i do know that Bautista claimed in an interview he had been tested a bunch of times for steroids

Just wanted to put this into perspective. Jose Bautista was still hitting 25 bombs a season when he came to the jays in 08. As well, if you look at him he has not magically become a massive monster like some steroid users in the past. Now take a look at Chris Davis. I applaud him on his massive year, but, firstly, you don't go from a 20 home run guy to a player who in mid July on pace to come close to the MLB record for homeruns, and 2, take a look at his rookie card and then a recent one.

what's his name?

@patanatorx No because he is a tank and he works hard... do u watch any MLB Network (guessing u dont) he has a commercial and he talks about what hes gone through to get to this level even.. he has so much talent and he just needed to get it out

Bautista world

Funny shit dude!!

who said it wasnt?

better defensively and can sustain a higher average, but Jose's got more power and better OBP ability, Kemp's also younger.... i'd love to have both...

+Falls Kicks I'm so offended. That's the best you hAve?

@TheQuadFeedzz there's other performance enhancement drugs that players use which don't result in muscle mass...there's stuff you can take which help you recover faster, and prevent injuries as well, which are also considered to be illegal. Look at lance armstrong he was taking steroids, and he doesn't look like it.

what made him better was his beard

TeacherManHitting calls it "Ready At Release".

@Soxxgo Ok gosh, it was just a mistake don't have to get so mad

i think it weird that out of no where Jose Bautista is amazing and hits 54 homeruns.. IDK if its steioids but i think it is.

@Soxxgo Yes they do, they just suspended Mike Jacobs 50 games for HGH and Manny Ramirez a few years a go for the same thing and same amount of games

Lol at Eduardo's face at 1:12

aj burnett?

Roids dont make you a better player, they only make you stronger

I dont play on that team any more my dad wasnt brought up on baseball he doesnt know how to teach it I learned from mlb the show and from a friend :P

wow i wish i could just "click" and overnight become a superstar hitter... lol

I'm a twins fan and I protect him :P

i like joyi bats