[mick]

Originally posted by Patrick Szalapski

Season                        2000   2001 

Number of games                 97     91 

Total pitches               28,488 26,388 

Total pitches per game       293.7    290 

Total strikes               17,306 16,475 

Total balls                 11,181  9,912 

Total swinging strikes      12,718 12,049 

Total called strikes         4,588  4,426 

% of all pitches called balls   39     38 

% of taken pitches call balls   71     69 



Runs per game                 10.7     10 

HR per game                    2.7    2.5 

Batting average              0.267  0.261 

The above is new strike zone information (provided by STATS, Inc) through the first 8 days of the season.

That's some, though not conclusive, evidence to show that the new strike zone is at least having some impact. Hopefully, the zone will get more consistent as the year goes on.

[Edited by Patrick Szalapski on Apr 11th, 2001 at 01:16 PM]

P-Sz,
Neat find.
mick