Hanlon already beat this horse several months ago.

And now, as then, he doth protest too much, methinks. The dead-center camera's not really any better than the off-center one. The former does distort the movement of a pitch less (inasmuch, anyway, as pitch movement isn't an optical illusion to begin with), but both are equally bad as far as distortion of ultimate lateral pitch location goes. And, as Hanlon grudgingly admits in his original article, the dead-center camera distorts pitch height more than its off-center counterpart.

If you really want to see for yourself if a pitch is a strike or not, you need two shots: One from directly above home plate, so you can see whether a pitch caught the plate or not. And another from directly opposite the batter's box, so you can see whether a pitch was high or low or what.

In any case, both dead center and off center give you better angles than the ones you get if you're sitting in the nosebleed seats in the outfield, or even in the grandstand at Fenway. So there's really nothing to get excited or complain about.