Texas Rangers manager Chris Woodward heaps high praise for Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Rougned Odor at Summer Camp at Globe Life Field.
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00:00 >> We live in the sky up here, how's it looking at ground level?
00:03 >> [LAUGH] Yeah, I got a pretty good view, you guys got a bad view.
00:06 I got a pretty good one right behind home plate.
00:08 Now both those guys have been really impressed with it.
00:10 And the first day I saw him, I talked to him, obviously in this off time, but
00:14 actually getting to see, Keiner, he looks like we never stopped.
00:20 Similar swing, same BP, I'm standing right behind,
00:24 watching him take some pitches that first at bat.
00:26 Really good strike to ball sliders, was able to check them, take them, and
00:30 then able to drive the ball the other way in the other couple of bats.
00:34 So it feels like he's never left, taken three months off and
00:38 then still maintain that rhythm and timing is pretty impressive.
00:41 So that tells me a lot of that may be consistent.
00:44 That's what we're hoping, obviously.
00:46 And with Ruggie, he had a really good spring before we got shut down.
00:50 He bought into a lot of things, he's made a lot of subtle adjustments.
00:55 And for him to hit a 97 up off speeds, that was not easy pitch to get on top of.
01:01 He did it the other day against Pico, who has really high spin, and
01:04 he did it today against Spies.
01:06 So that tells me that he's in a good place.
01:08 It's a left on left curveball, almost out of the ballpark.
01:11 He's in a really good spot right now.
01:13 >> Other questions?
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