Your first sentence says a lot, but offense is so far down now, they’re probably thinking of shrinking the strike zone or lowering the mound . I wonder whether Morneau or anybody else in NL will be able to keep BA >.300, or if we’ll have another ‘68 when Yaz won AL batting title at .299.
Lack of offense is a couple of things happening at the same time, in my opinion. General lack of any sort of shortening up on two strikes, not caring about striking out a million times a year. Hitters see pitchers less in game. Hitters usually only see the starter 3 times through the lineup and the rest they are seeing once per game. Relief velocity is waaay up the last 10 years. Advanced defensive metrics allow managers to play the %s with shifts, it supposedly works despite the outlier hit that would have been a routine out if no shift would have been on.
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