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Originally Posted by huskerdooz
I say again, you will never be a successful hitter if you stand at the plate and watch called 3rd strikes with the bat on your shoulder. Not only that but if you continually allow yourself to get into 2 strike counts you will fail more often than not. It's the 2-0 and 3-1 counts that you want to be in as a hitter. If the pitcher knows you are going to walk up there and take that 1st pitch no matter what, how many times is he going to try and hit that outside corner and how many times is he going to use the more of the middle of the plate. That is why you need to be aggressive within the strike zone early in the count.
Oakland hitters aren't successful because they stand at the plate and take strikes until they fall behind in the count, they are successful because they have enough strike zone awareness and are disciplined enough to take pitches out of the strike zone thus forcing pitchers to actually throw strikes.
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I agree with you 100%.
But for the record, I seem to remember that Hal McRae almost always took the first pitch.