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The statement that describes the central idea of the text is "Baseball can be explained and improved by collecting data and studying the natural laws at play in the sport."
You are referring to the article written by Stephen Ornes, of August 21, 2013, for Science News for Students.
The author refers to the idea that baseball and physics are related and can be understood through the "eyes" of science. Statistics bring interesting data to help understand the game.
And this idea is correct because today, baseball coaches and other sports coaches as is the case of football, use a series of statistics and data to better hire talent for their respective teams, as well as to better create plans and game strategies derived from the results and interpretation of data.