However, by ’98, I was ready to track pitchers in a more productive way. This time I made notes that helped me approach pitchers with a general plan, but not an analytical pitch by pitch plan. It was fluid. Sure, I used my mind to analyze the pitchers, but the analysis was done after the seeing, not during. I watched the pitcher with a quiet mind and only called upon my mind between pitches. Still, pitchers often confounded me, but I didn’t have to be right every time. If I correctly anticipated one changeup in an at-bat or two or three pitches in an entire game, I was bound to have a lot of
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