September 21, 2008
The Eyes Have It
Jack Cust will work on improving his vision this winter to cut down on his strikeouts:
"I'll dedicate part of my offseason to training my eyes," Cust said. "You train your body and everything else, but you really don't train your eyes. Hopefully, this will help. I feel I swing and miss pitches I should be hitting. My eyes aren't telling my brain the right location to go to.
"I'll be working on correcting some of my deficiencies I've had as far as depth perception. My swing is my swing. I've been doing it for 25 years. Mostly, it's just seeing the ball."
He'll be working with an optometrist who praised Barry Bonds's eyes as the best he's ever seen.
Then again, maybe Cust should just choke up on the bat with two strikes. :-)
Posted by David Pinto at
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Edgar Martinez was known for the various eye excersises he was always doing.
At some point Eddie Murray got glasses and that revived career. (IIRC.)
Also, he might want to try those "Jedi" exercises Manny does to keep his hand/eye coordination sharp.
Cust is a strange character - like Dunn he has 1 discernible baseball skill. While I'd always advise working on hitting the ball up the middle in his case I'm not sure that really would help him as a player.