Vargas Credits Chad Allen, Mechanical Consistency and Patience in Resurgence

[Brandon Warne]

Vargas has put together a really nice -- albeit short -- stretch with the Twins, and I chatted with him about that yesterday for this article.

 

http://coldomaha.com/2016/twins/kennys-vargas-credits-chad-allen-mechanical-consistency-and-patience-in-resurgence/

 

As always, discussion is greatly appreciated.

[King]

Good article. Vargas has been great. I'll be really interested to see what he settles into as a player. It's still early - he hasn't had that many plate appearances this season in the MLB, but the results (especially the plate discipline) are encouraging so far.

[magiklair]

Interesting article. Thanks for posting

[drivlikejehu]

In 2015, Vargas had a minor league BB rate of 17.2% (!!!)

 

His biggest problem has always been that he doesn't consistently barrel the ball up and take advantage of his raw power. Honestly I don't see much different in that regard, despite a few big games after the call up.

[Monkeypaws]

If Little Papi could have half the career of Big Papi, I'd be satisfied.

[Han Joelo]

Nice. Love the guarded optimism. Good example of player, coach, and management working together to fix a problem and get another chance.

 

To bad the same thing didn't work with another flash in the pan slugger. One of those links was broken, I guess.

[old nurse]

It would seem like it would be fairly universal tto teach players not expand the strike zone

[Seth Stohs]

I think Chad Allen is really good. He's only been back in the organization for like 3 years, but he's been a guy that players really like and learn from. He individualizes and gives ideas and works really hard. 

 

I talked to him about Vargas before the 2014 Futures Game. He was very excited to get back into coaching. 

 

http://twinsdaily.com/articles.html/_/minnesota-twins-news/minnesota-twins-minor-leagues/catching-up-with-chad-allen-r2967

 

[dgwills]

It's great to see Vargas having some success. Hopefully he can keep it up. I never gave up on him, but it was getting close. Glad Allen was able to coach him up!