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bacdorslider posted:
Any idea why? I noticed 70 percent of pitchers do this

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Why they banned the hybrid (which generally consists of acting as if in a set position with windup footing, or vice versa?) Because it gives a couple of advantages to the pitcher not intended by rule, particularly with R3 and LHP or R1 and RHP: 1) it makes it hard to determine if a step to the side is a step to a base or the start of a windup and runners were delayed on their secondary leads, and 2) it is illegal to pick off from the windup in FED, so throwing to a base was causing a lot of issues if the pitcher was using the position as both a windup and a set.

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bacdorslider posted:

So if there are no runners on base theres no advantage to the pitcher.  And if there are runners on then the pitcher would probably be in the stretch  thanks for the explanation

Probably. Not always. The disparity in talent within HS is huge--I don't do many HS games (at most, 18-20 a year,) but I almost always have at least one balk a season because a pitcher wasn't thinking and started from the windup in what would be a set situation. They realize it too late and do something illegal.

We were warned a few times last year in Missouri and called for it once with no runners on base.  I think you throw the rule out with no one on base because there is no advantage.   I fully understand calling it with runners on base.  The answer is to tell your pitchers not to let anyone get to third then there is no discussion about it.  My argument with no one on base is that there is no advantage gained which is the intent of the rule.

bacdorslider posted:

So even though there are no runners on base, not having your heals in contact with the rubber or the imaginary line extending from the rubber is now an illegal pitch.   Johnny Cueto might have a problem with this rule...

So the player in this picture has the incorrect stance?

If that's his windup, yes. If that's where he comes set from the stretch, no.

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