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Personally, I love this rule, If it is obvious that the batter could have and should have gotten out of the way, leave him in the box. If the batter didn't move at all, no flinch no nothing leave him in the box. In a reg OBR game, the batters box bit is not the RULE that is NCAA. If the pitcher is throwing 40mph beachballs, and the batter takes it without moving at all, Leave him in the Box. Also throwing your body in the way is a ticket to resume the batting position. Now then if the pitcher is throwing curveballs at guys for strikes then plunks a kid, movement or not he's getting his bag.
That said, in your stitch, Hit in the Back, there is movement, might be silly movement, but I'm going to give a base. Hit in the head, you get your base, if you have trained yourself to take a beanball your better than anyone I know Take your base. The human mind tries not to put the body in harm's way. Therefore standing still is a conscious act.
P.S. the Rule says must make an attempt to get out of the way, there is no further provision for - unless in BB or a curveball, or a fastball that froze the batter. So my stance usually is give me the attempt I'll give you the bag.
Personally I have called two pitches that hit the batter as not a free bag. 1 a strike, batter then grounded out, 2. just recently, leaned into the pitch, batter then hit into a triple play. I have no issues with either call they were correct. Also had minimum of 15 HBP that got there base if not double that #. Also this year is the first year that I have put a player back in the box and they haven't gotten a hit. Usually an extra base hit too.
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