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Major League Baseball will soon roll out a new piece of technology, Pitch f/x, for its Enchanced Gameday system, that promises to answer some of baseball's fundamental and enduring questions.

Now that we have these sorts of tools at our disposal, we can begin to ask and answer a variety of interesting questions. Which hitters tend to get bad calls? Which pitchers get the benefit of the doubt most often? On what counts is it more likely that pitchers or hitters will benefit? Which hitters swing at pitches out of the strike zone? ... How frequently do pitchers target specific zones against certain hitters? The list goes on and on from there—let's get started.

The mind reels.

Baseball's particle accelerator [Slate]