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Dominik8510,000+ posts

hsbaseball101 posted:
Dominik85 posted:
Yes home runs are at the highest rate ever, the Ks are the problem. Question is what to do about this. You could make the zone smaller but that would also increase the home runs. Home runs are great but baseball fans also want some consistency and not a beer league home run derby so home runs probably should not go up that much more.
Maybe a smaller zone and a slightly deader ball (but only by a little so that hr rates stay constant and does not drop dead) would be the solution.
Higher seams on the ball and electronic strike zone.

The reports on fangraphs and other sites I read were that the electronic strike zone would make the strike zone larger and not smaller.

Im all for electronic zone but then you likely would have to tighten up the rulebook zone or there would be even more strikeouts.

http://www.hardballtimes.com/t...ing-the-pitchfx-era/

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