Thursday, February 26, 2015

Building The Strike Zone

It has become abundantly clear in recent years that the strike zone, as defined in the rulebook, is not the zone that is called. The true strike zone, the one the umpires and batters see, is affected by myriad factors, including everything from the count to the catcher. The actual zone moves, shrinks, stretches, and distorts over the course of a baseball game depending on any number of details.

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