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Reply to "Should pro baseball do something to reduce Ks?"

Here is another option.  I am not advocating this necessarily nor is it my intent to sidetrack this post.  There are players who K (either swing or called) frequently because they perceive the pitch being a strike based on how home blue strike zone is that day.  If a computer were calling pitches it will be fairly consistent throughout the game and season.  A test run was conducted with a minor league team for some games.  Results were analyzed and categorized by an ivy league college professor.  I don't recall the exact results but I do remember the computer was much more accurate than a human, percentage of questionable balls/strikes decreased, there were minimal extra time it added between pitches.  If the batter no longer has to "guess" if blue is going to call a perceived strike they will decrease chasing after those pitches, thus 'theoretically" may not K as much.  Just something to file away in your personal filing cabinet.

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