“Most veterans agree that the easiest way to speed up the game would be to start calling the high strike—the one that passes across the letters—more consistently. Yet many fear that would give the pitchers too great an advantage. “You can talk about expanding the strike zone, but we’re in this offensive drought right now, so how is that going to affect it?” said Torre.”
If they called the high strike with the relief pitching and hitting approaches of today there would be a lot of 1-0 13 inning games played in 2 hours. At least until new players started coming up that actually put the ball in play with two strikes. It’s still the best solution.
The problem with upping offense in baseball is you then get longer games, and it’s the longest it has ever been right now as it is. Too long.
Freegards
I prefer a pitchers’ duel to a slugfest, every pitch matters.
Higher scoring is preferable to shorter games, in my opinion. Higher scoring means more action, more chance of see-sawing leads, more suspense.