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Thursday, June 09, 2011
Peter Dinklage as a baseball player?
Why not?
If tall guys in basketball are around for their rebounding, then short guys in baseball for their ability to take a walk is fine by me.
As noted in the article, only in September. And of course, pinch run for them immediately.
And in this day-and-age, it would be impossible for Selig to discriminate based on their player’s height.
Dinklage would probably be still too tall to be effective though. Since the height of the strike zone is roughly 2 feet for a 6-foot tall hitter, Dinklage would get probably about 1 to 1.25 feet of height for his strike zone. A 2 foot wide by 1 foot tall strike zone is not enough to guarantee at least a 50% walk rate. We’d need someone likely shorter than 4 feet tall.