----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 1:48 PM Subject: Re: Strike Zone
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:09:37AM -0500, Horn, John wrote: > > > The strike zone does seem to be the one place where baseball could use > > a bit of high tech help. But I'm sure the umpire union (what's left > > of it) would never allow it. > > Actually, I think this "bit" of high tech help is a much more difficult > engineering problem than you (and someone else) assume. > Unless you make the strike zone the same height for each player, you > need some way to adjust the measurement for each batter. That shouldn't be all that hard. The height of the knees and letters of all baseball players are known. If they are not known; they can be set fairly quickly when the batter is up at the plate. >Then > you need to actually measure the ball passing through the strike > zone. Horiziontal measurements could probably be done by something > buried underneath the plate, but I think the vertical measurement would > be much more difficult. You would probably need some apparatus sticking > up on both sides of the batter. Purists would not like that one bit. But, its being used now, to grade umpires at selected parks, including here in Houston. So, they must have it working at some level. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
