Loyal and insightful Batgirl reader SDave has asked Batgirl to send the following letter Torii Hunter-ward. The letter is already making its way west via carrier pigeon, but Batgirl thought the suggestions Mr. Dave offers to Mr. Hunter to help on his hitting were quite perspicacious and worth posting. [EDIT:Batgirl had to edit the letter because somehow it messed up the formatting of her entire website. Silly carrier pigeons.]
1) Try to hold off on the outside breaking balls and high fastballs. You just look silly swinging wildly at them.2) Get yourself a Mauer quick swing so you can get around quicker on the inside fastballs that everybody is throwing at you
3) Stop swinging for the fence on every at bat. As another option, maybe you could have everyday Eddie come to every game and taunt you from the visitor’s dugout. He’s not busy the rest of the year and it seemed to work well for you on Tuesday night.