Daily News | Inside the center field education of Phillies utility infielder Edmundo Sosa
manager Rob Thomson told Edmundo Sosa he was considering playing him in center field this season, Sosa was in Tampa, Fla., for a weeklong workout with a few players who were represented by his agency, Octagon. His friends, major league outfielders Julio Rodríguez, Adolís Garcia, and Manuel Margot, were there. They decided to give Sosa some tips.
Phillies first base coach Paco Figueroa said that while the transition won’t be “easy” it will be “easier,” because Sosa, 26, is athletic and has good instincts. Figueroa has been working with Sosa in center field about an hour a day. They started by mastering those same eight angles that Rodríguez was referring to, and reading balls as they come off the bat. Sosa and Figueroa have been focusing on balls that are hit “straight back and straight in.
Playing balls off the wall will be an adjustment for Sosa, too. Figueroa has encouraged him to get to the wall as quickly as he can. “They’ve got to gather their legs underneath their body and do a crow hop,” he said. “That’s something new too, for guys that go from the infield to the outfield.”
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