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Originally Posted by MikeStrybel
As stated in post #5, he has CI or OBS, whatever you want to call it. The takeaway is part of the swing - the batter is being distracted from his opportunity to then take a full swing at the pitch. ....
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Mike,
As Josh clearly stated in Post #4 - the post to which you were replying - the batter had abandoned his effort to hit the ball.
By your logic, you would award the batter in the video clip 1B. I don't believe that's a correct call.
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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
Kind of curious how you're going to make this determination. If he hits the catcher on the way back, you're not going to see whether he was going to swing or not - he's already been disrupted.
(Granted, at the MLB or even NCAA level - the speeds are such that the difference is greater - pulling back doesn't give time to swing... but at HS or youth ball, the difference is going to be much harder to determine.)
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mbc,
It's pretty easy to determine in the video that the batter has no intention of offering at the pitch.
JM