re: LSU Baseball 2023 (and beyond) Recruiting Thread - Old Thread - Please unpin

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The balls are juiced in MLB as well so I don't think thats going to change. I think the zone is what needs to be adjusted. Up to the SEC Championship The Announcers said that the trackman stats for strikes and balls were concerning because only 94% of balls in the zone were called strikes. That is what needs to changed.

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The balls are not juiced in MLB like they were in 2019. There's a new batch of balls every year that never seem to be quite the same as the year before, but nothing was like 2019. These balls in college baseball this year were like the 2019 MLB balls, in how drastically different they were. That must be changed. That just cannot be accepted going forward.

As for changing the problem with 94% of balls in the zone being called strikes, that's an umpire issue that can only be fixed with better umpires. And I don't see that happening any time soon. For as much as some of them squeezed the zone, you'd still see a ball a foot outside called a strike out of nowhere. It's just not good, and hasn't been for a long time.