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

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Dominik85 posted: I agree. However most sabermetric studies say the electronic ump would increase Ks because umps still call a smaller zone than the book says.

If you do electronic ump you likely have to tighten the rulebook zone.

Can you please post a link to some of those studies?

Are you saying the current strike zone would have to be made smaller? If that’s so, unless you advocate reducing the size of the plate, the only thing you could do to the zone is in the vertical plane.

6/21/184:50 PM

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