@eatyum_psn said in Take me to school.:
@the_joneser_psn said in Take me to school.:
@eatyum_psn said in Take me to school.:
I already answered how we influence bat angles in my first comment.
"the bat angle is based upon the PCI itself and how you place it, if you are under it, the ball goes up, if you are on top of it, it's a grounder. Not that hard to understand."
Horizontal matters to. If you are on one side of the pci, you'll hit it the other way and vice versa.
You actually omitted any mention of the horizontal in your first, but thanks for the edit.
Again, a ball in the center of the zone, sure, but how is a right-hander hitting the left side of the ball when swinging early on an inside pitch? Or, similarly, the upper part of the ball on a pitch above the letters? I'm just saying that, if you're right, and it's that simple, then there's quite a bit of magic there.
Yeah sometimes stuff happens that don't make sense, but that isn't a zone issue, that's an entire game issue and can happen with any batting type used. It isn't the game gifting zone users, it's the game gifting every user at some point or another. It's not some magic that only zone gets.
All my points are still general rules though, we do influence bat angles and horizontal movement just like you do, it's not the game doing it for us.
ok you clearly don't understand what he's saying. He is saying that, for example, low inside pitches force the zone user into creating a vertical bat angle in which you can get the pci above the ball and still get a fly ball if you are early. this is why hitting cutters low inside are so difficult because we as zone users are usually using players with vertical swings in that low and in location which means any horizontal movement on the pitch results in less likely contact with bat.
with guys like rod carew they swing the bat on a flat even plan so for lower pitches which make it easier to hit low in sliders and cutters but with guys like chipper he always swings the bat at a 40-50 degree angle.
with directional it seems possible to change the bat angle but with no control of pci placement and vice versa.
with zone we have no control over the type of swing we put on the ball as the location of the pitch determines the type of swing we get and the pci is merely only the place where we place that swing. you will never see chipper jones flatten his swing like steve finley to scoop those low in cutters instead they golf at it.
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