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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1451692" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>But lowering the mount in '69 barely decreased the K rate at all. It actually <em>decreased</em> the amount of balls in play because walks briefly spiked (related more to the concurrent shrinking of the strike zone, surely).</p><p></p><p>The big thing that changed from 68 to 69 was power. Guys hit a ton more home runs, because the stuff they were facing wasn't as good.</p><p></p><p>Admittedly when we're talking about mound height and strike zone size we're working with two variables so it becomes a bit difficult to parse. But it seems to me that the conditions that most incentivize hitting to contact are when the stuff you're facing is good, but the strike zone is small. Why risk a whiff when it's coming over the heart of the plate?</p><p></p><p>This is all theory, I'd like to see it in practice to get better data, though it's tough to develop a large enough sample size to really judge player tendencies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1451692, member: 746137"] But lowering the mount in '69 barely decreased the K rate at all. It actually [I]decreased[/I] the amount of balls in play because walks briefly spiked (related more to the concurrent shrinking of the strike zone, surely). The big thing that changed from 68 to 69 was power. Guys hit a ton more home runs, because the stuff they were facing wasn't as good. Admittedly when we're talking about mound height and strike zone size we're working with two variables so it becomes a bit difficult to parse. But it seems to me that the conditions that most incentivize hitting to contact are when the stuff you're facing is good, but the strike zone is small. Why risk a whiff when it's coming over the heart of the plate? This is all theory, I'd like to see it in practice to get better data, though it's tough to develop a large enough sample size to really judge player tendencies. [/QUOTE]
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