I don't know if this has been asked before, but is there a difference in positoning to clock LHP vs RHP? I was watching a game the other day and there were two different people clocking the pitchers. One guy was up in the press box sitting to the third base side of the field. The other guy was in the stands slightly to the first base side. (I was sitting close to this guy) After the game some of the people who were in the press box were talking about the speeds of the pitchers as recorded by the guy in the press box. The numbers they were quoting were a lot different than what I saw recorded by the guy in the stands.
I do know that both were using stalker guns. Of course there's no way to tell if they were recording the exact same pitches, but there was a variance of as much as 4-5 mph on what they were saying was cruising speed for the RHP. Can the position of the person using the radar gun make that much of a difference? If so, is it due to being in the press box vs being closer to the field, or is it being in a position left or right of the plate?
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