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Old 06-17-2021, 11:03 PM   #21
Syd Thrift
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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.
They did dejuice the balls prior to the season so now HR rates are merely at the rate they were in the early 2000s.
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