told<\/a> the Post-Gazette. \u201cThe barrel gets on plane super early, then you have more chances.\u201d<\/p>\nReynolds believes last season\u2019s issues were from timing and swing plane, which hurt his margin for error against elite velocity, which is something all hitters have to deal with these days, given how hard pitchers throw.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like my swing and path are completely different than they were last year,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cTime will tell when I get in against 97 [mph]. But I like how it\u2019s trending.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The adjustments come at an important moment and not just for Reynolds, but for the Pirates as a whole. Pittsburgh enters 2026 with more expectations than it has had in a long time. Reynolds has seen optimism before, but this offseason has felt different to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been really nice,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cI like what we\u2019ve been trying to do offensively. It\u2019s a different vibe going into spring. I feel like the past few years there\u2019s always been just a hope, maybe we\u2019ll come into spring and shock the world. This year, it feels like there\u2019s some realness behind it, some realness behind the potential\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSpring training is really long, so you have plenty of time to get to know one another and build that team chemistry,\u201d Reynolds added. \u201cAlso, it\u2019s gonna be Donny\u2019s first spring training as manager. That\u2019s gonna be fun to see how he is in that environment. \u201cI know when I signed, I wanted to be on a good, competitive team that has a real shot of making the playoffs and going on a run. I feel like we\u2019ve started to build that team. Now, we just have to get out there and perform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Reynolds doesn\u2019t need reminders of how high the standard he holds himself to. For years, he\u2019s been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,5343,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-545134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bryan-reynolds","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pirates","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115981780614467424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}