Swing at strikes and take balls

Its sounds extremely simple but its the hardest thing to do in baseball. You have to deal with the pitcher executing and trying to make strikes initially look like balls and  balls that at first look like strikes. You have to figure out the umpire's strike zone and how he decides on balls and strikes. The home plate is just for show but the umps home plate needs to be figured out and approach adjusted according to that particular umps strike zone. Each one is different but I know for sure the if the ball bounces the ump calls it a ball. Try to take all of those and be upset when you don't. IF YOU TAKE THE PITCHES THAT BOUNCE BEFORE THE CATCHER and swing at everything else over the plate that you can hit the barrel you make the pitchers job difficult which is the goal with hitting.