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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Anybody that actually appreciates baseball ought to have kittens about such horseshit.
It starts out nice & reasonable ... and then slides downhill at an alarming pace.
Want fewer strikeouts? Groom better hitters. Or stop trying to field 9 Dave Kingman's.
My God, "major league pitching" is already bordering on misnomer but the answer to that isn't bizarre limitations designed to cater to the fucking short attention span crowd, it's to perform badly needed contraction.
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Agreed that part of the issue is teams and players being more accepting of strikeouts for hitters, but a proposal to actually make teams use fewer pitchers per game would seem to be a solution that takes baseball back somewhat to how it was beforehand. The more teams focus on data and analytics the more obvious it is that pitchers get worse the 2nd and 3rd time through a lineup, and pitchers can throw much harder when they know they'll only be going an inning (and likely not pitching the next night.)
Even a decade ago, having more pitchers than players on an active roster would've been considered heresy, but it'll soon be the norm, at least in the AL.