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I would find your zone and stick with it, regardless of how high up you get. The zone described here to you is reasonable at all shaving levels.
I used to be a "Call the book zone" guy too ... but the real reason the zone hasn't changed in the book when it has changed in reality is that it takes an act of congress to change a word in the book, and reality works better than the book zone in practice.
I would note to all who said that this guy's mentors were telling him to go too far wide that they may have been overcompensating. perhaps after watching him on tape, they saw he was not calling strikes up to an entire ball over the plate - telling him to go 2 more balls to the outside may not have meant from the plate per se, but rather from where he THOUGHT the plate was based on what they were seeing from him on tape.
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