You are not thinking in video game terms you are thinking in RL terms. In RL someone who can pick up the rotation of the ball and tell if it is a ball or strike, has good hand eye coordination to make contact, and is strong with power to hit the ball will make a good hitter. The game has an added value of VR and VL.

I'll disagree.  Put me in a batting cage and I'll eventually catch up to the 95 MPH fastball.   Put a BL pitcher on the mound that tops out at 80 and I'll won't hit a ball well or hard.   My contact and power would still be the same as I'll still be the same person.   But I wouldn't be able to effectively hit a ball against BL pitching.   Hence my 3:01 post.   The batting cage machine isn't trying to get me out, the BL pitcher is.

I believe I've seen 95.   But, if it's greeny's machine, the whole game changes.   A pitching machine, like a BP pitcher, is supposed to groove the ball.  No matter how slow your swing is, you can catch up to a grooved ball.   Machine goes clank, clank, clank, clank,  pitch.   You just have to figure out which clank it is when you start your swing.   Has anyone been to a batting cage before? 

And, yes, 95 when you don't know where it's going is a bit scary.