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Originally Posted by Biggio509
The crux of the problem with the paper.
" It is possible, regardless of the findings of this article, that there is a correlation between height and a player’s effectiveness or durability at lower levels, but I do not address the issue here, because of insufficient data and confounding variables, such as social pressures that convince shorter people to play positions other than pitcher. " What endgames data shows is that most pitchers are 5'10 to 6'2. With this little difference in height I don't think you are going to see a lot of variance. Again this goes back to the quotation. Shorter guys just don't play pitcher at lower levels. Therefore you don't see guys like 5'6" Jose Altuve playing pitcher. The modern athlete is of at least average height for the most part. Height differences would not be expected to be show at MILB/MLB level because there is not much variation.
Like I said before I think the game is getting it right but maybe not through the correct mechanism.
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i was going to comment to something similar of this. i would not think that it is so much that shorter players do not pitch or have stamina. but more that, short players rarely exist in professional sports period. kirby puckett was never supposed to be a professional player because he was too short at 5'8". i guess a better question would be is, how often would "short" players be created in the game.
tim collins is 5'7" and he pitched about 70 innings last year as a RP. i know thats no where near 200 a starter would throw, but its a good chunk of innings for an RP. he even had 8.1 k/9.