Dang it. Sucked me back in.

Is it not only possible, but probably, that Lemo and a Foxhall recruited swing and miss pitchers to the old strike zone, and the teams that pitch it that way all flopped this past year due to the new tight strike zone? Maybe the smart hitting coaches told their guys to be patient because with the Umps being evaluated electronically, they aren?t going to call pitches 3-4 inches off the plate, and they are going force the pitchers to pitch between the top of the knee and the belt buckle to get called strikes, especially breaking balls.

I guess the walks stats might bare that out for the teams at the bottom 1/3 of the SEC.