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Originally Posted by Jason Moyer
The K rate has been increasing constantly for 50 years, weird that the MLB is suddenly doing something about it but I guess that's how they run things (see: 40 years of steroids before Congress held hearings and baseball had to start giving a crap). Can't wait until someone hits 80 homeruns in 5-10 years and they notice that the homerun rate has been higher for the past 5 years than at any point in baseball history and overreact to that.
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They did dejuice the balls prior to the season so now HR rates are merely at the rate they were in the early 2000s.