Baseball
Related: About this forumThere are things bugging me about the "new" automated strike zone
Home plate is an irregular pentagon with one 17" front edge, two 8.5" parallel sides, and two 12" diagonals that come together to create a point. The automated strike zone is a two dimensional rectangle 17" wide and a height depending on batter.
Seems to me with processing power what it is these day, the abs should have been a 3 dimensional irregular pentagon with varying height.
Auggie
(33,393 posts)From MLB:
https://www.mlb.com/news/why-is-home-plate-shaped-different-than-other-bases-c177695752
I find it hard to believe that a thrown ball would break in or out of a 16" square box at of 85-95 MPH. The 2-D plane is how umpires have called pitches for over 100 years. It works fine.
retread
(3,954 posts)Pitchers that learned to nick the back corners of the 3d zone with late breaking balls were heavily favored. True, human umpires probably rarely if ever called those pitches. I wonder how many pitchers are good enough and accurate enough to consistently hit those corners.
In times of declining and struggling offense MLB is not going to implement any change that appears to favor pitching.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25431834-mlbs-growing-problem-offensive-agony