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Message: [QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 3141681, member: 2350"] The problem I see with batters taking bad swings is two-fold. First, batters are taught today to wait for a single pitch and drive it with a mega-cut. So they resort to trying to guess what's coming. So they either drive it over the fence or strike out. Both of which are on the increase these days. The other problem is the uncertainty of what's a strike. There's too much inconsistency from one ump to the next (yes, I know it's always been that way). It's not quite as bad as Greg Maddux getting 6" off the outside corner (which he got for years), but the last few years with Aaron Judge getting terrible low strike calls have exposed the problem yet again. At one point I thought he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for not going apeshit over bad call after bad call after bad call. There's gotta be a way to bring in technology to create a more consistent strike zone. [/QUOTE]