Indeed it did, need to check out a before-and-after photo on his stance.
It's not the homerun, Kevin Cash had a couple of 'em in a Sox uni, meaning anyone can hit one, it's what the swing represented mechanically, at least to me, because it had been impossible for Ellsbury to turn on any kind of heat no matter how slow it may have been this year unless he was obviously cheating it.
Indeed.
But swinging at strikes is the basis of pitch recognition, Ellsbury's weak contact is more of a result of poor mechanics than pitch recognition.
I'll agree with that, but i, for one, think he will be better in every category this year, the team had faith in him, and i'm sure they had faith in him for a reason.