00:00Want to go to another premier slugger so far.
00:03Chase DeLauter had four homers on opening weekend for the Cleveland Guardians.
00:07This guy looks the part.
00:08Bet MGM absolutely loves him in the AL Rookie of the Year race right now.
00:13He is skyrocketing up the power ranks of Rookie of the Year races.
00:17But Chase DeLauter, through his first five games, has four homers.
00:20He's driven in five.
00:21He's the first player in big league history from atjustbb__media.
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00:28First guy in MLB history with five hits and four homers in his first three career regular season games.
00:33He debuted in the Wild Card Series last year.
00:36But, again, the odds at Bet MGM for AL Rookie of the Year go from plus 1,400 to plus
00:40300.
00:41Early takeaways from DeLauter.
00:43The craziest part is, like, I know it wasn't the regular season, but these were still real Major League Baseball
00:48games, I guess,
00:49or real baseball games against Major Leaguers in a Major League stadium.
00:52He had a two-home run game in the exhibition before the season, too.
00:56And I think he had a home run in the game before that.
00:57So he's got, like, seven homers in a week and change, especially.
01:02That's the craziest part.
01:03How does he do it with that swing?
01:05Because that swing is, like, not appeasing on the eye at all.
01:08No, it's not.
01:09And I think I want to make a video, like, really breaking it all down so that I can fully,
01:13fully, properly answer it.
01:14But the biggest thing is he is so efficient with his path, where he keeps his hands so tight to
01:22his body.
01:23But at the same time, like, he has more than enough plate coverage because he's 6'3", you know, 235
01:27pounds and has the longer levers.
01:29But he gets the barrel working behind him.
01:31And, yes, I think the part that people really don't like is that the body slides forward a little bit
01:35and it really cuts off his finish.
01:37But even as the body's sliding forward, he still hits so firmly against his front side.
01:42Like, you'll see how much that front leg locks up on him and how he doesn't.
01:46Most people, when they drift forward, the barrel pushes with them.
01:48He somehow doesn't have that happen, where the barrel still works behind him, and he almost uses it as more
01:54force coming with him.
01:55You can't teach it.
01:56Most players would not be able to stay connected like that while their lower half slides.
02:00He's an anomaly, and that's why I've always just been in on him.
02:03It's like most hitters that have that lower half move, I'm quickly out on.
02:06He is able to keep the torso and the lower half connected and really manipulate the barrel.
02:11The other part is his hand-eye is off the charts.
02:15His contact rates have been comfortably plus his entire career.
02:18And his plate discipline has been plus-plus his entire minor league career.
02:23You pair those two things with a guy with physical brute force and just some quirkiness that seems to work
02:28in his favor,
02:29you can't beat him inside because of how efficient he is.
02:32And outside, he can just flick his wrists, and he's still going to be able to beat you into the
02:37backside gap.
02:38And if you try to get him to chase away, he won't chase because he doesn't chase.
02:41So this guy's an anomaly.
02:43I tried to tell people to buy in, and I think they're bought in now.
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