How Do You Watch Defensive Strategy In Baseball?
America’s national pastime is often criticized for being too slow to be enjoyable. Understanding the subtleties of defensive strategy won’t exactly turn baseball into the constant rock’em sock’em action of roller derby, (it takes a brushback pitch and a bench-clearing brawl to do that) but it will add to a fan’s appreciation of the game. Watch baseball on television. It takes time to appreciate the subtleties. Broadcasts almost always have color commentators who explain what is going on, and with instant replay, the action can be repeated as an illustration. Read a book about baseball. There are a number of excellent books that detail strategy, idioms and how baseball philosophy has changed over time. Watch the way the defense changes its positioning for each batter. This is determined by the probability of where a batter is likely to hit a ball against a given pitcher. For example, if a right-handed batter is a “pull hitter” against a fastball pitcher, the third baseman will play clos
