The Down-the-Line Home Run Is Baseball’s Version of the Corner Three

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The Down-the-Line Home Run Is Baseball’s Version of the Corner Three
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The NBA’s Warriors and Rockets were at the forefront of the 3-point revolution. The Twins are doing the same in MLB by aiming for the corners, the shortest path to a home run.

FORT MYERS, Fla.—Professional basketball underwent a revolution when a bunch of data nerds arrived at an earth-shattering conclusion: 3-point shots are worth more than 2-point shots.

That revelation led to smart NBA teams like the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets hoisting up an unprecedented amount of threes. It didn’t take long for them to use their sophisticated mathematical talents to come up with another brilliant innovation—threes from the corner of the court are better than threes from the middle, because they’re...

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