C the Z--nothing revolutionary here. But certainly someone thought it was newsworthy enough to create a video and blast it to the masses.
So maybe it's because JD and SS are Zen masters in this arena?
JD pitched about 500 innings in the majors. He struck out 6.4/9, and walked 4/9. You can check your local Baseball Forecaster for that level of command, but rest assured, you won't find many human examples mentioned, because those numbers do not make the cut (I guess unless you're a LOOGY). And he actually was a little worse than average in throwing strikes.
SS stepeed up to the plate about 2500 times. He saw 3.43 pitches on average...compared to the MLB rate of 3.7. He swung at 50% of the strikes thrown to him, versus 45.9% for the league.
So i'm left thinking that either their C the Z epihanies did not happen untill AFTER they were done playing...or they recognized this all along, and just couldn't figure out how to employ it.
Should I be discouraged?