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Originally Posted by tds787
If your pitching in the major leagues you should effectively be able to "pitch around" meaning "try to hit the corners, but lean towards the outside of the plate." Yes, pitchers miss their spots, batters swing at balls / borderline pitches, but overall pitching around should work.
I don't play out enough games to have an opinion here on whether or not it does work or not. The pitch location widget is purely cosmetic, so who can tell.
Pitching around should lead to more walks than hits though. Didn't Curt Schilling post something similar? I'll take his word on it's application in real life  |
I never said it shouldn't work at all. My point was that two at bats is way too small of a sample size to use as evidence that something doesn't work correctly in a game. Someone needs to bring us proof of something like "walks only happen 6.1% of the time when using the pitch around command" and then we'll have Markus' attention.
I've heard differing "expert" comments on if the pitch location widget is accurate, but regardless, the OP posted a screen shot of an at bat and called it batting practice when there was only one pitch over the heart of the plate, three out of the strike zone and two on the corner, one of which was extremely borderline. I'm simply trying to pull back the exaggeration and look at the issue for what it really is -- two at bats that didn't lead to walks when that was clearly the outcome the OP was looking for. IMO, it's common sense that if you want to walk a hitter, you intentionally walk him, not use the pitch around command and then complain when the hitter doesn't walk.