By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
April 16, 2013
Kris Bryant is seen here. To be honest I don’t remember what happened in the at-bat, but I know I taped it because it was Kyle Zimmer vs. Bryant in a West Coast Conference smackdown. Perhaps they will meet again down the road.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
February 18, 2013
Kris Bryant is seen here in a composite of many of the looks I had at him in the 2012 season. Since this is his draft year, take a look, and we’ll run it over.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
February 16, 2011
Kris Bryant goes right, right, right, center, center, center, left, left, left. Somebody taught this guy well. (more…)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
November 20, 2010
Kris Bryant: long and loose right-handed body, I had a fresh look recently.
Bryant’s tool is right-handed power, but he’s going to have to adjust to the new world order where nobody is going to throw this guy a fastball for the next three years of his life. And probably, realistically speaking, it’ll be more than three years. He’s got the same bat speed I always liked at the 2009 Area Codes and in the Summer 2010. Bryant actually has a pretty good idea of the strike zone, though sometimes I wonder if that might get confused with a lack of aggressiveness.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
June 30, 2010
The first thing you would notice about Kris Bryant in this look has nothing to do with his power, which is his money tool that offers upward mobility. What you find is a young player trying to be the most complete player he can be, which, in effect, means playing to improve himself rather than to prove himself.
If you were around for BP, you got one ball pulled down the left-field line by the right-handed hitting Bryant, a clean shot well over and past the 330 mark. Good enough for me. I felt he was looser and more coordinated than when I saw him in Summer 2009 and felt his athletic actions were much smoother than they were in the summer. I also felt his hands and wrists are stronger, which is reflected in the quick, easy looseness from the BP swings. That’s why the power is there even if you don’t see it in a game on a given day – most guys don’t have what I would call “easy” power. Some raw power is generated by max-effort swings with multiple moving parts. I don’t like complexity in swings. I like loose and easy explosiveness with physical projection. I like effortless weight shifts, loading, keeping hands back, and throwing the head and bat speed. Bryant has a very simple swing that probably should keep him out of prolonged slumps throughout his career. He trusts his hands and his front side.
By Jen Marder
June 9, 2010
Today the Toronto Blue Jays selected Kris Bryant with the #546 overall pick in the 2010 MLB Draft. Baseball Beginnings has been scouting Bryant from the start of the draft cycle. Enjoy links to the content we have published on him through the year.
Read Kris Bryant Q&A
Watch Kris Bryant Video
Watch more Kris Bryant Video
Watch more Kris Bryant Video
Read Kris Bryant Scouting Report
Read Fall 2010 Kris Bryant Update
Read Summer 2010 Kris Bryant Update
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
April 23, 2010
Long legs, high hips. What am I grading, a runway model? No, but Kris Bryant has the frame you find in big league locker rooms. By that I mean guys with hips that come up to everyone else’s arm pits and help generate the right-handed power.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
April 1, 2010
The raw right-handed power Kris Bryant projects him to be a player capable of cornerstone offensive numbers. A first baseman in pro ball in all likelihood, Bryant’s sweeping stroke and uppercut is reminiscent of run producers such as Troy Glaus and Dave Kingman. We’ve had a few looks at him here at Baseball Beginnings, and his potential warrants another look.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
February 12, 2010
Put a question mark on which position Kris Bryant ends up playing as a pro, be it first, third or the outfield. What you can’t put a question on is his physical presence and plus, plus, raw right-handed power. The comparisons Bryant gets are guys like Troy Glaus and Dave Kingman. One thing about the Kingman comp: he was a better athlete earlier in his career, and actually had enough arm to pitch and play third base in college. Those are both things Bryant could do in college, if he gets to San Diego. The dollar sign is on the right-handed power and the right kind of body.
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
December 8, 2009
Kris Bryant has two valuable commodities going for him, both of which you cannot teach. One in his body type, which is long, tall and loose, and the other is his power. His power is all raw and his frequency is all in front of him. He’s going to be a good riser on the 2010 Draft charts and he is yet another product from Las Vegas, which sends us power-hitting corner infielders the way the Dominican Republic sends us shortstops.
