Quote Originally Posted by CaptainObvious View Post
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.
That still Foxhall's fault. Regardless of whether you are into analytics or not you still have to command the zone. That's a big difference between Bednar and Sims and our other guys the past few years- they could throw their fastball and breaking ball for strikes. You don't even have to be a smart hitting coach to tell guys to lay off spin if the pitcher can't ever throw it across the plate.