Tee/GD

[btdt]

On today’s paid side is a retrospective of articles by TAC. I noticed in the short blurb on the Gerry Davis stance that he mentions that by moving back, you get a longer look at the pitch.

I don’t understand how. Doesn’t the pitch take the same amount of time from pitchers hand to catchers glove no matter where the PU is positioned?

What is Tee telling me that I don’t understand?

[LMan]

Yes, but you see more of the ball's travel through the zone since your eyes' angle to the flight path is shallower (more acute). The more perpendicular your eyes are to the flight path (as in looking 'down' on the pitch at more of a right angle), the harder it is to judge its overall flight path through the zone (esp in height/altitude). Not that you can't, but setting up to reduce this angle gives you a better look at the entire flight path (at least for me). I can see the pitch enter the 'box' (oval, whatever *grin*) more clearly and track it better to the mitt.

your mileage may vary of course.

[Tim C]

Thanks LMan . . . said quite well.