Daily News | ‘Whip it like an axe’: What it’s like to spend a day at the batting cage with former Phillies manager Charlie Manuel
, Darick Hall stepped into the batting cage. He took a few swings as Charlie Manuel, leaning against the batting cage as he often does, looked on.“You got to keep your top hand loose and whip it like an axe,” Manuel said, swinging the bat down as he talked. “If I’m going to saw a log, and I’m shoving the saw forward, you’ve got to catch it and saw it back.”He went back in the cage, and this time, he swung down.This is not a new message Manuel is preaching.
“You’re young and you think a certain way, and then you get older and the same guy is saying the same thing for seven years, and you realize that he’s right. It’s kind of like when you actually listen to your parents.”The Phillies’ Kevin Long knows coaching hitting and trash-talking. And he’s exceptional at both.
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