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First, let's address the baseball side of this discussion. Baseball does not dictate where a runner must be at the time of the pitch, softball does. Baseball runners are 50% farther away from the batter than softball. But you cannot have a rule that is only effective within so many feet of a base, so it has to apply everywhere.
AFA the "string" theory, that would be easy to see in the FP game, however, in the SP game, it would be a rarity that the runner on 2B would be behind the "string" especially in a 5-man infield.
I think it is something you will know when you see it and I'm not really looking for a string.
However, you cannot lose focus if you have a short or charging OF that undoubted has a play and you may still have an INT situation.
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The bat issue in softball is as much about liability, insurance and litigation as it is about competition, inflated egos and softball.
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