TexanMark
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I don’t know why MLB hasn’t pushed for a standard ball in all of the affiliated minor leagues.
Cost...I don’t know why MLB hasn’t pushed for a standard ball in all of the affiliated minor leagues.
Well, yes, but there is plenty of money. They have money for statcast in the minors, but not enough to make sure everyone is using the same ball?Cost...
Don't agree. The average fan wants to see home runs. The pitchers will have to deal with it.The new juiced ball is making baseball worse. Pitchers are afraid to pitch because the new ball makes simple fly outs into HRs. It's an awful development.
Don't agree. The average fan wants to see home runs. The pitchers will have to deal with it.
Tough times for the purists. Reality is telling MLB they have some challenges to keep crowds coming.Degrade the quality of the game because of idiot fans with short attentive spans.
To me 2.5 hrs is perfect for baseball.Fans don’t really know what they want. They claim to want offense, but also don’t want long games and blow-outs. Of course, more offense goes along with longer games and wider margins of victory.
Don't agree. The average fan wants to see home runs. The pitchers will have to deal with it.
We have guys batting below 240 hitting 25 plus bombs and taking third strike after third strike and pitchers wearing out after six innings. Those final three innings are killing the tempo of the game .
There was a big run on this in the 80s as well.
Rob Deer, Pete Incaviglia, Steve Balboni, Jack Clark, Ron Kittle. These guys were everywhere you looked. And you'd swear they were blind, but so strong that if they randomly did hit the baseball.
But starting pitchers could throw 150 pitches if needed, so it didn't stick out.
Now with pitch counts neutered and bullpens becoming so specialized, they should return to bullpen cars and let managers make the call from the dugout.
I miss the days where guys like Paul O'Neill and Bernie Williams used to hit .315 with 20-25 homers with 40 doubles and 100 plus RBI. Sabermetrics have ruined the game for me.
I bang my head against a wall watching night after night guys take borderline pitches for strike three, when guys like Keith Hernandez would just spoil pitch after pitch til he got one to drive.
Heck Bryce Harper was a line to line 300 hitter 4 years ago and now he's become a one dimensional guy.
I miss the days where guys like Paul O'Neill and Bernie Williams used to hit .315 with 20-25 homers with 40 doubles and 100 plus RBI. Sabermetrics have ruined the game for me.