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I think managers should try to get the most out of their teams as they can, and players should do, within the rules, whatever it takes to help their teams win.

I like innovative strategies like shifts and openers.

I definitely think the game is turning into too much HR or K (sometimes walks) and not enough balls put in play-- but it is the best way to score runs so if I were a manager I'd go for HR's and K's too, so my team would win as much as possible.

But if I were running baseball, there are many things that could be done to make that a worse strategy, and those who run the game should do them. Recalling something Bill James suggested as the trend was starting, a big part of all the home run hitting is the bat speed from thin handled, but big barreled, bats. Bats have a maximum circumference. they also need a minimum circumference, and a minimum weight-- to force the bats in use to be at least as heavy and thick-handled as in the '70's.

There were power hitters in the '70's, so it's not as if it would be the end of power hitting or anything. And there'd be more still, because sabermetrics has helped people see the relative unimportance of batting average relative to power and walks. But there'd be fewer than there are now. And the bigger bats would have less bat speed, but more bat control, so high average hitting would become more possible.

High use of one run strategies-- bunts, base stealing that isn't very high percentage, that sort of thing, should stay low, because using one-run strategies unless within 1 run in the very late innings just costs you wins, as long as there's more power than the dead ball era. No one should ever use a hit and run (as opposed to run and hit) because a hit and run you're making the hitter swing at a bad pitch, which hurts your team a lot more than any gain from starting the runner.

A great thing about ootp is we can play in any "era" we want, so I use stat modifiers from the mid-'90's, when power hitting and K's were just starting to increase so it still feels modern, but they hadn't reached the extremes yet, so putting together rallies was still a big part of the game.