What happened to Castro?
Cubs brass emphasized learning to pull the ball in effort to increase power numbers and developing a patient approach at the plate to increase OBP. Castro's skill is the hand/eye coordination to see the ball and to go with the pitch to any field. Singles, doubles and occasional home runs. He modified his stance to very open in effort to enhance his power to pull and lost his coverage of the outside part of the plate and the inside-out swing to go opposite field. Attempting to be patient, he took the hittable first strike he previously lined for a hit. Behind in the count, he began to expand the zone and turn over on the outside pitch. By this season he was a dead pull hitter who consistently turned over on the outside pitch with weak grounders to the left side of the infield. Be who you are, not what others expect you to be. If he is hitting to all fields, he is capable of 200 hits a year and a .300+ average.What happened to Castro?