Earn It Rook

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Dave Rouleau Dave Rouleau posted 4/8/2008 from www.baseballdigestdaily.com [flag]
Last week, I showed how pitchers with great reputations, specifically winners of the Cy Young award, on average get about an extra inch of the strike zone given to them by the home plate umpire. So if the celebrities of the big leagues are given extra credit, are the nobodies given an especially hard time? [link]

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