I recently fired up the career mode of a certain baseball video game and created Jon Hale, the 6-foot-10, 265-pound slugging left-handed shortstop. Unfortunately, besides all the other things wrong with that concept, I found it completely impossible to hit, as Hale’s strike zone was almost the height of my television. And that got me to thinking about how baseball is one of the few sports where there is a potential disadvantage to being huge. In the real world, is it a drawback to be a taller hitter with a larger zone, or can the bigger players compensate for their larger zones with longer arms and bigger, stronger, bodies that get to the ball wherever it is pitched?
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