Re: Should balls and strikes be called electronically?
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some pitchers were throwing these really high arcing ball that were basically unhittable, and they would fall out of the sky for strikes.
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isn't this a ridiculously obvious consequence of putting a mat behind the plate and calling it the strike-zone?
This is immediately what I thought would happen before I even read your part about how it actually was happening.
This must have been the stupidest league ever.
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Well, it was apparently full of winners who were trying to squeeze out walks and bump up that OBP so yeah, it sounds like a barrel of monkeys.
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