Can Corbin Carroll keep up momentum after early season slump? | Baseball Bar-B-Cast

Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz discuss how Corbin Carroll is making adjustments to his swing and seeing more success at the plate for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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We've had a lot of really good players that have been struggling over the this first month.Um And at some point, you have to trust that the talent within and the drive and the understanding of oneself as a hitter will eventually win out.And that appears to be what is happening with one Corbin Carroll who last night took a 96 mile an hour fastball from left hander Justin Wilson above the zone and hit a screaming line drive over the left center field fence for is one of those swings that is Tori Lallo said after the game a lot has to go right in your swing to hit a pitch like that over the fence.And as Corbin Carroll talked about after the game and I'm gonna write about that today.Um He's been, he's been working it, he's been, he's been going through it as we know, the numbers are not pretty.There have been some clear like, ok, this is what he's struggling with, but he has been very intentional with what he has been trying to fix.He has reflected on what he was working on this off season and how it did or didn't help him.And now we are starting to see him come out of it.The numbers are still not pretty but Lavella put him in the, in the leadoff spot last night and he hits a three run homer.He's got five RB isa couple hits and this is much, much, much needed.I had concerns when I met and talked to Corin Carroll for the first time that he was too smart to be a good big leaguer.I think to be a good big league hitter, you have to be a little stupid because you have to have an irrational self confidence and you can't overthink things.You have to be able to analyze what's going wrong without letting it consume you.And you sent me the interview that Carol gave about the mechanical adjustment adjustments he's been making that he gave after the game yesterday.And I thought the way he talked about it was the perfect combo of smart and dumb where at some points he's saying things like, you know, my hinge is here and I have to work on my, my bad angle and I need to think about my vertical attack, blah, blah, blah, like smart guy stuff.And then sometimes he just is like, yeah, you know, I'm just going through it right, trying to get better every day.And so to me, that is the perfect combo of these two things from a mentality standpoint, a baseball cliche is, oh, you know, you just got to see a ball, you know, fall, you just got to see it, you know, hit, hit grass, touch grass as they say.Right.Find the garden.Yeah.Right.It's just like, oh, once you see a couple of hits fall then it's gonna start going.It's like, that's one side of the baseball cliche spectrum.But the more compelling one is, it's like, man, like, if you can, if you can put a swing on like that, that's, that's where it's like, oh, it is, it is working.