, he met with hitting coach Kevin Long. Long noticed that Marsh’s timing wasn’t right. There were too many moving parts.
“He told me it was a clean slate,” Marsh added. “He was like, ‘Hey man, you’ve got to relax. Go be you. Swing like you did in high school.’ And that’s kind of where we started. And we’ve progressed since then. He told me to go out there and be an athlete. “My role is to get to first by any means necessary,” he said. “Whether it’s a walk, or a bunt, or an error. Any way, any how. Because the guy coming up behind me is, and if we’re on base when he’s up, it’s great. There’s a very high chance he’s going to hit a homer, and we like people on base for that. So my job is just to get on first. And if I end up hitting a double or hitting one over the fence, it’s just a plus. If I see something I like, I might jump on it a little bit more.