I want to start this by saying, I am not so idiotic as to think I actually would be able to hit a major league pitcher.
But when presented with the “do you think you’d be able to even make contact on 1 out of 100 pitches by a pitcher”, I’d like to understand why.
Like if they did nothing but pitch breaking stuff, couldn’t I just overcorrect? Same deal with fastballs? I’m sure they would mix it up, but out of 100 straight pitches, if you were a major-league pitcher, what would you do to make sure that they never made contact?
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Without a lifetime of training that would give you a MLB-esque level of skill, you simply dont have the hand-eye coordination and associated reaction time to “overcorrect”, as you would have difficulty understanding what needed to be corrected in the first place.
And that statement holds for a situation where you see the same exact pitch 100 consecutive times. Once they start manipulating speed, placement, etc., you are now maybe seeing the same pitch 3-4 times total out of the 100.
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