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[QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 2346078, member: 2350"]
In this postseason, [URL='http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/33192/aaron-judge']Aaron Judge[/URL] has had strike calls repeatedly on pitches that appear to be at the very lowest edge of the strike zone -- or to be less charitable to the home plate umpires, low and out of the zone.

One evaluator noted that this seems to be a common experience for Judge, perhaps because umpires are simply not accustomed to interpreting balls and strikes for a player as large as the Yankees right fielder. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Judge is the largest position player in MLB history, at 6-foot-7 and 282 pounds.

Shorter players such as [URL='http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/31662/jose-altuve']Jose Altuve[/URL] know all about unusual strike zone interpretations: The short guys will sometimes have strikes called on pitches higher in the zone, and conversely, Judge seems to have more than his share of shin-high pitches interpreted as strikes.

[URL="http://www.espn.com/blog/buster-olney/insider/post/_/id/17559/olney-aaron-judge-struggling-to-find-october-strike-zone"]Olney: Aaron Judge struggling to find October strike zone[/URL]
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