Re Don’t widen the plate:
Loved this. What a coincidence home plates are 17 inches!
In baseball, as in life, all that matters is that you reach Home safely.
it’s the expanding stike-zone that gets you
Greg Maddux -
“People think the strike zone is 17 inches wide because that’s what home plate is.
But the ball is three inches wide, and if any part of the ball gets the plate,
it’s a strike.
That means, counting both sides of the plate, you
really have 23 inches to work with.