The Quest for Perfection

What helps make Carlson Beltran so good?

Carlos Beltran is expecting a big year and not just because it's a contract year.

That includes help with collecting $85,000 from teammates to pay for a weird-looking machine that spits out tennis balls at 140 MPH, designed to improve a batter's eye. The contraption is a cross between a blowtorch and chain saw. It has an orange canister, a vacuum-cleaner motor and a five-foot tube that rests on a tripod.

He usually starts slow hitting around .252 in the 1st month and he wants to avoid that.

Beltran stands in the batting net and takes 100 tennis balls a day from the machine he's helping to purchase. The training is for Beltran to focus his eye-sight on the balls and try to determine the number on the ball and whether or not it had a black or red dot on it.

Are you freaking kidding me? LoL. Hey but its working he is currently hitting .299 with 10 HR's, 28 RBI, 29 Runs, and 10 SB's.

Sounds like the Cubs desperatly need Beltran and his pitching machine to me.

Hmmmm maybe us fans need to strike a deal with the Cubs....they get Beltran and we get him his pitching machine. I will chip in some cash if it means landing Beltran. I know I am dreamin.