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Old Sun May 14, 2017, 10:24pm
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Originally Posted by MT 73 View Post
It looks as if you get a good view of the outside corner so I plan on revisiting this stance at my game tomorrow.
I used to work a hugely wide heel-toe stance with my head deep into the slot back when I was young and incredibly flexible. You CAN see the entire plate, especially the outside corner....but you have to learn where it is. That deep in the slot, when the ball crosses the plate outside, there is nothing but dirt under the ball from that perspective when it goes through the strike zone.

It took me a whole season and a half to realize how far "out" those strikes really were.

That said, I'm pretty sure that NCAA evaluators still want GPA behind the plate, rather than square to the pitcher.
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