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Originally Posted by cc6
I've never heard the left arm analogy before. With a left handed batter at the plate, would it be the right arm across the body?
I do set up in the same place each pitch, except for if the catcher covers up the entire plate or the batter puts his hands in my line of vision. Then I am forced to improvise, and I find back and up doesn't work well unless I stand straight up.
I agree with Bob's statement that it is important to call the strikezone that gets the fewest complaints.
A swinger looks to pull everything he sees. A hitter goes with the pitch, including taking the outside pitch to the opposite field. If I'm doing a league full of swingers, meaning guys who are not willing to adjust to anything remotely outside, then I am going to call nothing off the black so that I avoid complaints and ejections.
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The batter and his coach are not trying to help you. You cannot improve when you rely so much on what other people say they saw. Develop a reference zone for the outside pitch.
The left hand analogy applies to people who place their glove on their left hand and catch a baseball thrown on their right side backhanded {thumb down}. With an outside pitch thrown at a right handed batter, a lefthanded person would turn the glove over and reach out to the left to catch it forehanded {thumb up}.
You want to feel comfortable calling that outside pitch. It is all about a sense of location in or out of the zone. That is something the mind can handle much more quickly, and with a lot of confidence. IOW, as Evans says, proper use of the eyes provides the visual cues to the brain that result in the right call. Trying to measure the distance {brainwork} just makes the call that much harder.