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Originally Posted by Westheim
My current easy fix is to make the strike zone bigger to encourage swinging at marginal pitches rather than coaxing every count to get to 3-2. Hitting marginal pitches will get the defense involved, bring down homers, and maybe even the strikeouts.
None of my easy fixes have ever worked, so there's that...
Running as part of the game seems dead, though.
They don't have to hit it *that* far to right at Pinstripe Place and still make a fuss about it every time a guy pops one outta there.  |
You think the way to reduce strikeouts is to widen the strike zone? What? Forcing players to strikeout or swing at bad pitches isn't going to do any of the things you think it will.
Pitchers are better than ever, especially the bottom half of them. A higher percentage of pitches are 90s+ than ever before. That's why strikeouts are up, because hitting a really fast baseball is ****ing hard. Since it is harder to hit it you are less likely to get several hits in a row, so players try to make their hits count more with homeruns. That's all there is to it.