Your eyes are in your head. Your arms are attached to your shoulders, not much below your eyes. So why the heck was the strike zone ever below the belt? Now it's down to the hollow of the knee.
At one time in the primordial days of baseball in the 1800s the batter could request that the strike zone be high or low. i.e., shoulders to belt or belt to knees. That was changed for reasons that, to me, are unclear.
So if they aren't going to make the strike zone a fixed target like an archery bull's eye, then the strike zone should be a batter's choice of either:
- shoulders to belt
- belt to knees.
That allows for batters who delude themselves into thinking that they prefer low pitches.
Current conventional wisdom is that batters favor low pitches. Maybe but for delusional reasons:
- batters don't see strikes called much above the belt
- batters must protect against strikes called at the bottom the knee.
Maybe they could test this in that experimental league, the one where they are trying an automated strike zone. The very concept of the strike zone is the problem: no physical dimension. Try determining if a basketball shot went through the hoop without a hoop.
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