Baseball Coaches Use a Radar Gun to Measure the Speed

question 136

Essay

Baseball coaches use a radar gun to measure the speed of pitcher’s fastball. They also record outcomes such as hits and strikeouts. The scatterplot below shows the relationship between the average speed of a fastball and the average number of strikeouts per nine innings for each pitcher on the Bulldogs, based on the past season.


-Comment on any unusual data point or points in the data set. Explain.

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