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Originally Posted by eyezen
"In baseball, a pitcher’s strike-to-ball ratio is the same home and away. "
"They call more strikes on away batters in tight games in the late innings. "
Given your POV of point two how can point one be true for relief pitchers? |
Good question. I'd have to guess that the first claim doesn't break out relievers or tight games, but averages them in overall. Since relievers' pitches in tight games is a tiny fraction of all pitches in all games, the effect doesn't show up in the overall strike-to-ball ratio for all pitchers.