Gray Area Strikes

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by SAump

You said it yourself in all the "everyone agrees with KF threads" that one ball off either corner is a strike. If you can't tell the difference between a For-You-Coach and a strike, I suppose there is no gray area strike left to discuss. Three balls in any direction would be too much.

Now I ask you to accept another ball off either side and it is suddenly impossible and unfair to the MLB hitter? I thought this thread was about the "gray area" found near the strike zone. I didn't realize it only pertained to the top and bottom quarters. As previously discussed in the KF threads prior to this, I'll continue stealing those pitches on the sides of my game.

Good luck,

What does most of this post mean? What are you referring to?

How did you make that leap from one ball off the corner, outside only, if it's caught right? With all due respect, you have gone way off course and you are not accurate in your recalling of what was said previously. You claimed that MLB hitters swing at pitches two balls off the plate and that it should be called at that level. I addressed it. They don't swing at that pitch routinely and it should not be called a strike.

I can't go two balls off the plate on either side under any circumstances. It's unfair.

And other than Jimmy Wynn, Rickey Henderson was another short guy that had more homers than Puckett, but he played twice as long. And I hate to admit it, but the very small Joe Morgan also had more and played twice as long.