Major League Baseball has made the games faster, the bases bigger and defense a little bit harder.
“Just move the mound back to about — oh, I don't know — second base? Maybe fastballs only?” Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Jake McCarthy said, laughing. “I just think these pitchers are really good.expansive new rules package this season
But punch outs are again near an all-time high, with each team averaging about 8.7 strikeouts per game. The high came in 2019, when the average was 8.81, but that was before the National League joined the American League by adopting the designated hitter rule for good in 2022.“We all understand that this game is very difficult," Giants slugger J.D. Davis said recently."Pitchers these days are even better than they were five, 10 years ago.
He struck out just 19 times in his first 357 plate appearances this season — numbers more reminiscent of 1923 than 2023. The notoriously staid sport has made a huge effort to modernize over the past few seasons — particularly with the pitch clock — and doesn't have much of an appetite for more seismic shifts on the field in the near future.
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