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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
Guys in real life pop out to the infield on 3-0 counts too. Their eyes get big, but they end up under the ball.
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Not with the frequency that they do with OOTP. If the count is in-fact just purely cosmetic and to work pitch counts, which I believe was established last year, then situational hitting relative to the count is void.
Yeah, guys do pop it up on 3-0 counts IRL too. Of course. But if we looked at batting average and OBP by count IRL and compared it to OOTP there would be insane differences.
https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-hitters...-in-3-0-counts
https://theanalyst.com/na/2021/05/wh...hitters-count/
But again, being that it's been established that the count doesn't really matter in OOTP, none of this is surprising.... So yes, while guys *do* pop up on the infield on 3-0 IRL too, the frequency of that IRL is not even close.