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The dejuiced playoff ball plays an awful lot like the juiced ball at Oracle Park

Arguably, the biggest story line to come out of the postseason has been the apparent change in the ball. Over at Baseball Prospectus, Rob Arthur showed that the postseason baseball has significantly more drag which is causing it to not travel as far. As of October 10, Arthur calculated that there have been 50 percent less homers than we would expect in the regular season. It’s not just Arthur either, the St. Louis Cardinals analytics team also found that the ball is traveling around 4.5 feet less on average. Players, fans, broadcasters, and cameramen have been getting fooled by would-be homers.