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what do you think?

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well it wouldn't be batting practice since BP is designed to allow the hitter to find his stroke and BP is only medium paced fastballs.

in spring training before you get to the actual games against other teams you go through what is called "pitchers BP" where the pitcher tells the hitter what is coming, it is designed to get the hitter repititions and his timing down since hitters always show up to camp behind the pace of where the pitchers are and it gives pitchers time on the bump.

now you are calling the pitch but not the location so you aren't given everything it takes to hit a pitch so it isn't as easy as you think, in camp the hitters don't do that well with this, they actually do terrible but it's early and their timing is way off. before answering this you would have to tell me who the pitcher is, can he locate a plus back-knee slider (which is basically an unhittable pitch b/c you either hook it foul and if you keep it fair you snap your bat), so the pitcher means a lot in this scenario.

avg big league pitcher vs. avg big league hitter i would say he would hit over .300. avg big league pitcher vs. barry bonds or albert pujols is another story.