Posted by: Dave (cdpaetkau@telus.com) on Thu Feb 13 15:24:43 2003

Sometimes it is more important to know your pitchers strengths and weaknesses first. Most pitchers are more successful pitching from their strengths instead of trying to pitch to each hitters weakness. A hitters weakness is most often not exposed by watching one or two at bats. If you play the same teams more than once charting is very important. Make sure though that you not only chart what pitch and where it is located but also you need to know if this is your pitchers best or worst pitch. I know this does not get the exact answer you wanted but IMHO a lot of time is put into trying to find a weakness instead of focusing on strengths. Money pitches are not only made on a 3-2 count.

dave