What we’ve said
- The FYC is not appropriate for youth leagues.
- The FYC is a fixture of life at the professional level.
hen there’s everything else.
I’ve searched through my files and come up with some comments about the FYB, both pro and con. As they say: "You be the judge."
Tony Peters, a college umpire, sugests there is something called the FYC:
In his [name withheld] second at bat, it only takes four pitches to put a backwards K [struck out looking] in the books. After strike two, he walks away again. I tell him, "Get in the box. Those are good pitches. I'm not going to have you question every pitch call I make." Here comes strike three. It was a good pitch, not an FYC. He walks off, flings his bat, sits down — and shuts up. No ejection, of course.
Bob Hicks, who wrote the Southwestern Baseball Umpire’s Mechanics Manual, thinks the FYC is perfect for college games:
Certainly in college ball, and from your description these players were intending to get to that level, [drawing] a line [off the plate] is often thought as some indication of where the next pitch is likely to be headed. And called a strike.
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