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How the strike zones affects everything


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Being a skeptic I crunched some numbers for the "smallest" and "largest" zone numbers.  My critical assumption being that the zone is perfectly square which it of course isn't.

 

Smallest:

     2.85 sq ft = 410.4 sq inches

 

     410.4 sq inches if perfectly square would have 4 sides 20.2 inches long

 

Largest:

     3.65 sq ft = 525.6 sq inches

 

     525.6 sq inches if perfectly square would have 4 sides 22.9 inches long

 

Diameter of a baseball:

     ~ 2.87 inches

 

Edge of largest zone - edge of smallest zone :

     22.9-20.2 = 2.7 inches

 

What the data is really saying is that the largest average difference in strike zones is approximately the width of a baseball.  

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What the data is really saying is that the largest average difference in strike zones is approximately the width of a baseball.  

 

You don't need to assume that the zone is square. You'd reach the same conclusion by assuming that the difference in area is distributed proportionally. ;)

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