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Reply to "Waste Pitches"

SultanofSwat posted:

How many pitchers practice throwing waste pitches?

Define a waste pitch.  Are all 0-2 balls a waste pitch?  How many times have we seen 0-2 pitches out of the zone swung at and missed for strike 3?  Is that a waste pitch?

No pitcher purposely throws the ball 3 ft out of the zone.  These are simply bad pitches.  

I don't consider an 0-2 pitch thrown just off the edge of the zone a waste pitch.  

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