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Old Thu Jul 13, 2006, 05:22pm
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Originally Posted by ToGreySt
When I was getting patched to work high school ball, my trainers had me work on a pitching machine and taped my work. Their initial reaction about me was my zone was too small, they took me aside and said that I can give them an extra ball's width on the inside and two on the outside, both of those conform to what they called the "high school" strike. my question is this, if your zone gets widened for high school and lower levels (mine sure does), at what level do you use the strict interpretation of the zone? do you wait till college ball? or high school playoffs?

Joe
For HS Frosh this would be OK. One ball width for JV & Varsity. In other words, call as wide a zone as is reasonable without getting flack.
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