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Bradley S Barwell's avatar

Ryan,

Quite an article and analysis. Thanks for putting in the time and work to look into this.

Last game I was out there, I had Teo's comments on my mind and deliberately looked at the batter's eye. I was shocked at how shoddy and uneven the paint looked on it. There are a lot of factors, but just straightening that wall and maybe painting it a matte forest green could be a good start. They gotta try something. They're churning through way to many good players and wasting the prime of some of our superstars.

Greetings from an old Sax teacher. Glad to see you're doing well and that your Mariner's passion is still going strong. Keep up the great work.

~B

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Pierre M's avatar

This does a fantastic job of explaining/justifying light as the main factor of underperformance of batters at T-Mobile. Do you think that if the batter's eye were changed it alone would be enough to significantly reduce the upper hand pitchers have at the stadium?

Also, this is inarguably somewhat unrelated, but do you have any advice for modeling the distance a baseball travels given it's launch angle/exit velocity? i'm struggling to figure out how to code such a thing and im not sure i can just ignore things like wind resistance.

Thank you for your time!

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