The Batting Team

by P.Figueras - 13:30 on 13 Dec. 2012

We are blessed with good batting all the way down the batting order, we like nothing more than get a good pitch to hit and put it into fair territory.  Yeah! Perhaps, there is nothing wrong with being selective at home plate but baseball is, in my view, a game where the hitters are meant to swing the bat in order to hit the thing.  I am all for hitters swinging at the ball when it is in a strike zone regardless of the count and I would encourage players at every opportunity to swing at a good pitch and try to make connection with the ball but if they are unable to do so they should, at least, make the pitcher aware of their intentions by looking at the direction in which the ball travelled to home plate after the swing has been executed. I think it is fair to say that if a batsman is not conscious of these things, he is at the pitcher's mercy.  Nevertheless, a good batsman should have a fairly good idea which pitch he is most likely to hit and which pitch he has trouble with.

P.Figueras