re: Played my whole life

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Taking a 3-0 pitch is conventional wisdom and one of those "cardinal rules" of baseball. The game has changed. It's perfecty acceptable to trust a good hitter to swing on 3-0 if it is a fastball and it is in the hitter's preferred location. It's usually the best pitch a hitter is going to get.

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This is very true. First of all...no team should want to be completely predictable in any situation. But most importantly the situation does matter. If LSU was in a bases loaded situation I’m pretty sure Beloso would have had the take sign. But it was 1 out and a runner on 3rd. You want to drive that guy in. Giving the green light to Beloso, who got a very hittable pitch, was a good plan...he just didn’t come through.