Top 3 in RBI Standings Are All Hawks; Luis Santos: "The Key is Mental Construction"

(Central News Agency, New Taipei, 15th, reported by Su Chih-she) The top three spots in this year's Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) RBI standings are temporarily occupied by the TSG Hawks. Hitting coach Luis Santos pointed out that the commonality among Steven Moya, Wang Po-jung, and Wu Nien-ting is that their mental construction is different from ordinary people. "I believe the generation of RBIs is all about mental construction."

The Hawks defeated the Rakuten Monkeys 3-2 yesterday, and the three players who contributed RBIs happen to be the top three in the RBI standings. Steven Moya is temporarily first with 25 RBIs, followed closely by Wang Po-jung with 21 and Wu Nien-ting with 20.

Luis Santos believes the reason these three good players can consistently generate RBIs is that they clearly know their job when there are runners on base, and sometimes a hit isn't even necessary to achieve it. "For me, RBIs are all about mental construction. It's all about mentality. How do you build up your mentality?"

Santos further explained that so-called mental construction is about thinking about how the pitcher will pitch and what the pitcher's strategy is. As long as you can know these things, it helps the batter to be mentally prepared. "And that's what they are doing."

The Hawks' overall hitting recently went through a slump. Santos pointed out that that week was just an ordinary week that every team goes through. There are good times and bad times. As long as they continue to practice and do their best, there will be no problem. Now, the overall batting performance is good. "We still have to give credit to the players; this is the result of their hard work." (Editor: Lin Shu-hui) 1150515