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To: TBP
The only effective way to change the incentive structure you describe is to make the ballparks bigger.

Interestingly, baseball didn't get to this point -- where so few balls are put in play -- by accident. It's a natural consequence of analytics ... because computers helped us realize that getting runners on base and moving them around the bases is actually a very inefficient way to score runs.

85 posted on 02/12/2019 10:45:05 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Build them like the Polo Grounds, old Yankee Stadium, and tiger Stadium, with nice, short, inviting foul lines and a deep centerfield. You have fences for the power hitters, good power alleys to produce lots of doubles (ane therfore men on base), and a place for pitchers where balls can go to die.

Ballparks like that make oyu play a mor einteresting brand of baseball.


86 posted on 02/12/2019 11:04:58 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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