Rangers’ Josh Jung shows adjustments, mindset needed to combat ‘The Grind’ of MLB's second half
In that regard, he kind of is one. He’s been working on this stuff since he was 11 and his father, Jeff, then a high school coach in San Antonio, brought home a series of videos by peak performance expert Brian Cain that he’d happened upon at the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association.As a bonus — but wait, there’s more! — Cain included a miniature foam toilet and a foam brick with the video series. The toilet: A reminder to flush the past.
Cain, who worked with the Rangers as a consultant for a time, has other clients across the world of professional and college athletics. But in Jung, he sees someone more inclined to actually put the tools to use. The foam toilet has long since gone to that big outhouse in the sky, but there are times still when Jung will go into the bathroom adjacent to the Rangers’ dugout to “flush” a bad at-bat.
“He’s wired mentally as well as any player I’ve worked with at any level,” Cain said last week. “He understands the mental game better than most people who have a master’s degree in psychology, better than most people who teach it. He’s as prepared for [the mental grind] as well as any player in the history of the game.”Young players typically fall into two different categories, offensive coordinator Donnie Ecker said. There are those who chase comfort. And there are players like Jung.
“His framework is to pursue the truth,” Ecker said. “So, he’s going to make the necessary adjustments. He wants to be told the truth of how he’s being pitched. So many players at this point are in survival mode and when you are in survival mode you fall back on default behaviors. And those are usually what is comfortable, rather than what is true. He is [invested] in exploring and doing the work.”It gets harder, though.
“There is no doubt in my mind that this is an advanced kid where it comes to [the mental grind],” manager Bruce Bochy said. “You know that night he went back out there and took some swings? You think maybe this kid is going to fry himself. And then he comes right back and plays great baseball. He’s got a great head on him. And I think above everything else is his love and passion for the game.
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