The dejuiced playoff ball plays an awful lot like the juiced ball at Oracle Park

Oct 18 2019 by McCovey Chronicles

 
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Almost immediately, baseball fans noticed that the ball was carrying differently in the postseason, but everything looked normal to Giants fans.

Arguably, the biggest story line to come out of the postseason has been the apparent change in the ball. Over at Baseball Prospectus, Rob Arthur showed that the postseason baseball has significantly more drag which is causing it to not travel as far. As of October 10, Arthur calculated...

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