It is so frustrating that umpires at the MLB level (and below sometimes) never call a strike above the belt. This shrinking strike zone has contributed to the increased length of games and increase wear and tear on pitchers arms. If umpires would call a strike that is above the belt games would be quicker and pitchers would have to throw fewer pitches.
Corey Burnett absolutely!!! I don’t know when it happened but almost every umpire in travel ball and HS ball around here calls any pitch at the waist high And any pitch at the middle of the shin a strike
I call mine exactly by the book for high schoolers, and it gets larger for younger players. For 12 year-olds, for example, add one ball up, outside, and down (but not inside).
@@timothyreavis5475 its not where the catcher catches it, which will appear lower. It depends on the angle that you're watching it from , but its impossible to tell most of the time.
If it crosses the zone at any point it's a strike. So if you threw a slider that touches the very front of the plate's zone and then moves outside that's still a strike.
A good video BUT it fails to address one issue: If a pitch cuts through the strike zone but is received by the catcher outside the strike zone, is it a ball or a strike? I see plenty of examples of pitches that cut the corner of the plate while passing through the appropriate window between the knees and upper boundary of the strike zone but are are called balls. Why?
It doesn't matter where the catcher catches it or if he catches it. Though from what I can tell the catcher does try to frame the ball to influence the umpire's perception and that does seem to actually work sometimes. I was wondering, because in LL there are a lot of bad catchers and they will at times let a fine strike get past them and it then looks like a bad pitch but the ump still calls it a strike.
im new to baseball and this is madness. you don't know the strike zone until the batter is started swinging...the knees are at different levels of elevation and the torso is angled...wtf???
haha yeah it is kinda messed up huh. I guess its not a perfect science. Though with technology it could be. But the umps are protected by their union. Or something... from what I've been learning.
It's pretty bad when the umpire explaining and displaying the rule doesn't get anywhere accurate to his own explanation of where the midpoint between the top of the shoulder and belt is. He missed it low by 2" IMO. I always told the "managers" for me it was before they started their swing. Guys would try to pull their pants down so low they were barely on their butts. Then I told them they had to field with their pants like that or they were out of the game.
The rule needs changed to avoid this kind of manipulation. The top of the zone should be relative to the elbow- you could say top of elbow (the fold) or bottom of elbow, but this would be much clearer and less malleable than belt which can easily be adjusted, so that just makes no sense.
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It is so frustrating that umpires at the MLB level (and below sometimes) never call a strike above the belt. This shrinking strike zone has contributed to the increased length of games and increase wear and tear on pitchers arms. If umpires would call a strike that is above the belt games would be quicker and pitchers would have to throw fewer pitches.
Corey Burnett absolutely!!! I don’t know when it happened but almost every umpire in travel ball and HS ball around here calls any pitch at the waist high And any pitch at the middle of the shin a strike
I call mine exactly by the book for high schoolers, and it gets larger for younger players. For 12 year-olds, for example, add one ball up, outside, and down (but not inside).
The high strike has been taken away by MLB games. At the college and high level high school, they threaten to kill you over high strikes.🙄😂
@@timothyreavis5475 its not where the catcher catches it, which will appear lower. It depends on the angle that you're watching it from , but its impossible to tell most of the time.
So does ball have to cross the whole backwards distance of the plate or pass the front 3rd of the plate....depth of the strike zone is never discussed
If it crosses the zone at any point it's a strike. So if you threw a slider that touches the very front of the plate's zone and then moves outside that's still a strike.
It just has to touch any of it. The ball could just pass through a centimeter of the back top of the strike zone and technically that is a strike.
A good video BUT it fails to address one issue: If a pitch cuts through the strike zone but is received by the catcher outside the strike zone, is it a ball or a strike? I see plenty of examples of pitches that cut the corner of the plate while passing through the appropriate window between the knees and upper boundary of the strike zone but are are called balls. Why?
It doesn't matter where the catcher catches it or if he catches it. Though from what I can tell the catcher does try to frame the ball to influence the umpire's perception and that does seem to actually work sometimes.
I was wondering, because in LL there are a lot of bad catchers and they will at times let a fine strike get past them and it then looks like a bad pitch but the ump still calls it a strike.
Damn so the split i saw was a good tactic to throw the pitchers usual striking zone
im new to baseball and this is madness. you don't know the strike zone until the batter is started swinging...the knees are at different levels of elevation and the torso is angled...wtf???
haha yeah it is kinda messed up huh. I guess its not a perfect science. Though with technology it could be. But the umps are protected by their union. Or something... from what I've been learning.
Amazing how many folks that DON’T know what the strike zone is
It's pretty bad when the umpire explaining and displaying the rule doesn't get anywhere accurate to his own explanation of where the midpoint between the top of the shoulder and belt is. He missed it low by 2" IMO. I always told the "managers" for me it was before they started their swing. Guys would try to pull their pants down so low they were barely on their butts. Then I told them they had to field with their pants like that or they were out of the game.
The rule needs changed to avoid this kind of manipulation. The top of the zone should be relative to the elbow- you could say top of elbow (the fold) or bottom of elbow, but this would be much clearer and less malleable than belt which can easily be adjusted, so that just makes no sense.
awesome
Here's the REAL K-Zone:
If the umpire says it's a strike...
SHUT DA FUCK UP AND SWING THE GOD DAMN BAT!!!
Class dismissed.
Knees to letters/armpit in a swinging stance , PERIOD
No, it is not knees to armpits. You are wrong, PERIOD. Did you learn nothing from this video?