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Originally Posted by Westheim
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So MLB did doctor with the ball this year (AGAIN). Looks like they got it wrong (AGAIN). There are still tons of homers, more strikeouts, and now nobody can hit even .247 anymore. Can we PLEASE get the ball prior to the 2017(?) All Star Game back? Might have been 2018, I can't remember.
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Baseballs were super balls, the game adjusted. Free swingers upper cutting. Home runs ballooned, with a vast increase in strikeouts.
So..you un-juice the baseball, but you still have a HUGELY reduced average batting average and lowered on base percentage.
Fewer on base, AND fewer home runs, and you have pitchers all over the league with microscopic ERA..and entire TEAMS averaging 3 runs per game on offense.
What's the answer? Players like Tommy Edman for the Cardinals, with a sweet, level swing is leading the league in hits. Players like Lindor, in love with his uppercut, isn't catching up to the 98 mph fastballs rising through the strike zone.
I say don't make any changes at all. Let the players figure it out. Players that get on base will play, players hitting .170 and striking out 200+ times a year will not.
That dip**** Baez is on pace for 280 strikeouts this year, and refuses to do anything other than making huge uppercut swings. At some point he will lose his job.