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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1451706" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>The math exists in a context. A context of how likely the home run is, how likely a strikeout is, and so on.</p><p></p><p>If all the fences in all the ballparks were moved back 50 feet, you can bet guys would stop swinging so hard they struck out a quarter or more of the time. Players like that would become useless overnight.</p><p></p><p>My theory is that a world in which stuff, particularly breaking stuff as you mentioned, got better because of the higher mound, BUT, pitch placement got a bit more certain and it got easier to have good plate coverage because of a smaller zone, slappy doubles hitters would start producing more offense than Adam Dunn types, and then players would adjust to become more like those players.</p><p></p><p>It's a theory. But I think it's a sound one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1451706, member: 746137"] The math exists in a context. A context of how likely the home run is, how likely a strikeout is, and so on. If all the fences in all the ballparks were moved back 50 feet, you can bet guys would stop swinging so hard they struck out a quarter or more of the time. Players like that would become useless overnight. My theory is that a world in which stuff, particularly breaking stuff as you mentioned, got better because of the higher mound, BUT, pitch placement got a bit more certain and it got easier to have good plate coverage because of a smaller zone, slappy doubles hitters would start producing more offense than Adam Dunn types, and then players would adjust to become more like those players. It's a theory. But I think it's a sound one. [/QUOTE]
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