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Originally Posted by Dakota
OK, but then why are you opposed to vocalizing the location of the pitch? Same thing, right?
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Not to me, since a pitch hitting the plate looks pretty to good to most of the players on the field. I never verbalize anything beyond the decision. But I do spend time between innings and after the game helping a neophyte pitcher understand the slow pitch strike zone.
One exception to the verbalization answer. In these lower leagues I use different words on an illegal pitch, at least in the first weeks of the season.
An illegal pitch is either "flat" or too high"(with the appropriate delayed dead ball signal) Most of these novices seem intimidated by the word "illegal" until they understand that they can swing, if they want, at an illegal pitch. Flat and Too High they seem to understand.