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In the book Sixty Feet, Six Inches Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson talk about how the game is played and such. Super awesome book if you haven't read it.
The relevant piece of information in relation to this conversation is that Reggie Jackson says (paraphrase) that if a pitcher can consistently hit that low and away pitch and get him out often, he would start going after it. But if it wasn't 2 strikes, he wasn't even going to swing at a ball away. This was especially easy since he knew with almost certainty that if the pitcher missed and left a ball in, middle-in, or middle, that he would demolish it into the 2nd deck.
Essentially - force the pitcher to beat you instead of getting yourself out by swinging at something that isn't your ideal pitch.
Also, from my college coach perspective: Bryce has gotten good at fouling off pitches that aren't "his pitch" (spoiling) with the intention of getting "his pitch." He's starting to use it more to his advantage, i.e. the walkoff HR at-bat.