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Post by PABraveFan on Jun 29, 2019 21:10:20 GMT -5
You can't program a zone base on height because each player is unique in how that height is distributed and their batting stance. If a player crouches you're then calling strikes at his neck or conversely at the shins with a strike zone determined by height alone. I think he was saying make the zone based on how crouched they are or how upright they are. I have been thinking all along that would be the best way to go, but I'm also wondering now if that's fair--if two guys who are 6'5" tall step into the box and one stands upright and the other crouches, is it really fair to give the croucher a strike zone that is 4-6 inches smaller? I think one question to ask is how do our human umpires handle that situation now? I brought this up a month or two ago, I said it looks to me like that strike zone box we see on our TV screen is the exact same size when Ozzie is batting as it is when Freddie is batting. The way to tell is look at how the box compares to the catcher when he's in his crouch. I was going to pay more attention to that but totally forgot. Yep...I've tried to do the same thing. It doesn't appear to move very much if a player is 5'6" or 6'5" so I'm really not sure how accurate it really is.
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Post by PABraveFan on Jun 29, 2019 21:21:26 GMT -5
McNeill seems to get about the same box as Ozzie, it looks smaller than Freddie's, but it also doesn't give him much credit for crouching.
For a comparison, check out the letters on the ground (in the grass area) behind and the red on the board in the back. McNeil's zone looks the way it should at the letters but a little high at the knees. Albies and Freeman are barely above the belt at top of the zone but at the proper place at the bottom of the zone. Freddie's zone should go to the top of the white line in the background and Albies should go to the bottom of the letters in the background.
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