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Sammy Sosa: evolution of a big league hitter: cubs slugger continues to improve as a hitter--establishing season high marks in batting average, runs, RBI, walks, and on-base percentage in 2001.(Interview)
JEFF PENTLAND INSERTS THE VIDEOTAPE. Class is now in session. The Cubs hitting coach was asked to explain how Sammy Sosa, once a feast-or-famine free-swinger, has transformed himself into perhaps baseball's greatest offensive force.
"You have to give Sammy a lot of credit," Pentland says. "As a young guy, he wasn't blessed as a guy who could hit. He went through a lot of hitting coaches and got a little better each year. All I did was put the frosting on the cake."
In his first spring training with the Cubs, in 1998, Pentland challenged Sosa to join baseball's "upper echelon" of hitters.
After a season in which he batted just .251 and struck ...
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