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SomeBaseballDad posted:

So if a computer generated strike zone were to turn the game more in the offences favor it would have a positive effect, IMO.

It won't, though. Hitters have figured out that selling out for more power is more valuable than putting the ball in play at the cost of that power, and that's the primary driving force for three true outcomes hitting approaches. Changing the strikezone is just going to alter the ratio of those outcomes more than anything else.

I don't know that there's a fundamentally easy way to fix that (assuming it's something that needs to be fixed). Larger outfields would probably go a ways, but that's not especially feasible.

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