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If you move forward with this, I would be curious to see what happens beginning in 1923. In my random debut league where I recently finished the '25 season, things radically changed after two years. The league went from being a league with a lot of contact hitters (John Kruk hit over .400 in '21) to a league full of power pitchers and windmill hitters. Hitting has become feast or famine as it seems like everyone is swinging for the fences when the '23 season begins.
Pitcher strikeout numbers zoomed up after '23. In 1924, Al Pratt mowed down a league record 645 hitters. 22 pitchers have recorded more than 500 k's in a season. 56 pitchers have bested Old Hoss Radbourn's real world NL 1884 record of 441 and 89 pitchers have done better than Nolan Ryan's 383 from the AL in '73.
The power numbers also increased exponentially as well. Jose Canseco hit 27 in 1921, but Kent Hrbek and Babe Ruth came in as rookies in '23 and hit 62 and 59 respectively. Ruth ended up hitting 71 in '24, but only batted in 113 runs. Everyone ahead of him was striking out so there were rarely runners on base when he hit his home runs.
There wasn't a single no hitter in either '21 or '22. From '23-'25, there have been 23 no hitters and 3 perfect games. The lowest number of strikeouts for any of these no hitters was 10.
I'm wondering if things will level out a bit as the seasons progress, but this sudden change has been a bit strange.
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