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The Bret Boone Podcast
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The Impact of the Strike Zone on the Game
The strike zone has changed in our era. It was more of an East West strike zone, and now it's more of a North South. The fact that they're calling higher strikes and higher curve balls, if you look at the top line of the box on television, on every broadcast, those high curve balls were never called inOur era. Nowadays, that's a strike without a doubt. And I think that's impacted swing and miss. You have hitters chasing power, swinging maybe try to try to launch and get the ball in the air more with a higher strike zone from pitchers. That's why you see the strike rate, the strike out rate rather so high in the major
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