By "last year," do you mean the last four years? I'm just making sure you're still referring to the same one that's featured in Home Run Derby.
I only had two quips with that camera view, and one of them isn't even a real quip:
1) The camera pre-determines where the ball is going to land, and fixes its height there. So if it is going to land in McCovey Cove at AT&T Park (since it's basically at "ground level"), the camera won't lift high and you won't see the flight of the ball; meanwhile, if it hits off the top of a foul pole, the camera will angle very high upward and you'll see the entire flight path of the ball.
2) Not really a quip, but we need this camera for regular games at all times. It's as close to a real-life broadcast as we'll ever get, it seems. The camera is still a bit low (like a FOX Saturday national broadcast), but I would settle for that. Instead, the "broadcast" camera that we've had is not only very low, but it's not stationary and it looks down the left- and right-field lines on balls hit in those directions. We need one right behind home plate, high up, and stationed in one spot for gameplay, much like that home run cam.

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