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It's pretty normal for that to happen. Teams have minor league scouts out there for potential targets and acquisitions but I don't think it's too common for them to be specifically looking for weaknesses that they can exploit in the player's approach if and when they get to the majors.
Good example, Dansby Swanson was one of the top prospects in baseball, came up last year and put up good numbers (with some batted ball luck), and this year teams figured out they could just feed him a steady stream of sliders and he couldn't hit them.
Yeah but Judge saw a steady stream of sliders first half but took them because 90% are out of the zone, this is the problem not hitting them when in the zone. Both he and Sanchez (who's even worst) are chasten out of the zone too much, they need to have better selection again. I know he's not a .300 hitter more than likely but he can be a .270/.280 guy with very good power numbers.