The veteran outfielder arrived at camp with a goal of increasing his power production — following offseason workouts tailored toward such improvement.
PORT ST. LUCIE — Mark Canha’s first season with the Mets could be viewed largely as a success based on his .266/.367/.403 slash line with 13 homers and 61 RBIs in 140 games.
Canha spoke recently to Post Sports+ about his mission offensively for this season. Canha owns a .227/.277/.273 slash line this spring without a homer in 44 at-bats.Not good so far — a big goose egg up there in the home run column . But it’s going better. It always takes me a long time to find my swing and my path and my legs and everything. And I feel lately there’s been a nice step forward and I was able to lift a couple of balls.
I’m still very much getting after it. The lower body as much as the upper body. For me, it’s more about my strength and just allows me to feel good … it actually feels better when I’m stronger and have my core strength. Mark Canha was reluctant to establish a numerical home run goal for this season, but did say, “I would love to hit 20.”I try not to evaluate myself on one number like that. You have to see how it goes. If I’m hitting a bunch of doubles, that’s great, too, so I’m not going to sit here and say, “I would really like to hit 20 home runs.” If I would, that would be great, but you just want to feel like you are driving the ball and doing damage.
Valentine also gave Leiter the ball for Game 1 of the World Series against the Yankees in 2000. In Game 5, Valentine left Leiter in the game to throw 142 pitches. The Yankees took the lead in that series clincher on Luis Sojo’s ninth-inning dribbler through the middle.
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