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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
BABIP indicates that indeed ballplayers “hit ‘‘em where they ain’t” as often ore more often than they ever had. The issue is more with making contact in the first place.
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Yup. The roid era proliferated HR hitting, spreading down to the lower levels of the game. How do you stop HR hitters? Strike them out by being a power pitcher.
So now every teenager wants to grow up throwing 105 with a fastball slider combo. It's just market inefficiencies working themselves out. At some point in the future we will see a couple dominant control pitchers and then the game will evolve again over the next 25 years.