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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 5309400, member: 2839"] That is not a batting stance, let alone a natural stance. No one, least of all this player, can hit out of that stance, as evidenced by him nearly falling over backwards. For that pronounced of a "crouch," the natural stance is at what position the player is in immediately preceding the crouch. Henderson's natural stance did not shrink his strike zone per se, but pitchers found it difficult to pitch to him because of its appearance and the fact that he was Rickey Fv<kln& Henderson. Also in the days before Questec (and the like), umpires gave Henderson the benefit of the doubt. The funny thing is that the pitch looked like it was a strike regardless and appeared to be called as such. [/QUOTE]