RE: Pitch location tracker on MLB game pages- Is it from the pitchers perspective or the catcher/batter perspective?
- Pitch tracker orientation- who's perspective are we seeing that from pitcher or catchers?
Pitch tracker- batter's handedness needs to be displayed next to the player name
Add a batter sillouette or a home plate to the strikezone graphic of the pitch location tracker.
I appreciate the pitch tracker to see indiviual pitch location during at-bats. However, without a reference point indicating which direction we're viewing the strikezone we cannot understand the pitch location- eg is the pitch outside or inside on a righthanded batter?
The preference is to show a batter sihoulette and a homeplate because it shows both the correct perspective but also the handedness of the batter.
The simplest fix is to inlclude a homeplate because the viewer can immediately orient themselves and the homeplate can be a stationary(unchanging) part of the graphic template.
- Also in the pitch tracker interface, Yahoo needs to display the handedness of the batter (batter is a LHB-Lefty or RHB-Righty). Currently the pitch tracker shows the handedness of the pitcher but not the batter. If Yahoo decides to put a batter silhouette on the pitch tracker strikezone this will solve that problem. but again the simplest fix is to place a homeplate as part of the stationary strikezone graphic and then indicate the batter's handedness next to his name just like the pitcher's handedness is already displayed