Posted on 06/06/2015 7:22:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Figured you were...even if I were a big league pitcher, with enough velocity and placement to blow it past most hitters, I would not want to face them with aluminum bats. Most fans don’t understand the difference in talent between college and the minors, and the minors and the show.
In Little League, I had to face a pitcher who made it to the AAA level in his early 20s. I still haven’t seen those fastballs he threw past me. Hitting a round ball with a round bat is still the most difficult of all athletic feats.
Yep.
In the bigs, a ball can come off the bat at 90+mph. An aluminum bat could add up to 20(!)mph to that!
For the solution, we could go to the transgender community. Instead of actually hitting a pitched ball, the batter stands at the plate and announces, “I want this to be a double,” and voila! Not only is he given a double, but he’s praised for his courage and given a prestigious sports bravery award. Games would be shorter, safer, and PC.
5th in Fox Sports power rankings right now. They’re hot this year.
Hopefully they can keep improving. I don’t really keep track of how they’re doing as much as I used to.
Lol. And boring.
Then MLB got a little greedy and starting emptying the parks between games so they could charge twice. That kind of killed the doubleheader and now they only have doubleheaders for makeup games, I believe.
But let's say we had scheduled doubleheaders every Saturday and Sunday for the 26 weeks of the regular season. That would account for 104 games right there. Then add holidays - Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day and that's 110 games.
That leaves 52 games left to finish out the 162-game season. Monday and Friday single games, which gives the teams Tuesdays through Thursdays off (or to make up rain-delay games).
Even better, have the same teams play each other during a given Friday-Monday stretch. These are six-game series.
I think that would bring a lot more interest into the game as opposed to the mind-numbing monotony of the MLB season we see today.
I think it was a controversy between ash and maple bats. I don’t remember which was the culprit but one of the species splintered much more easily than the other.
Who was that batter whose broken bat (sadly) hit his own housekeeper?
Just bring Tuukka Rask with you, and you shouldn't have any problems.
With wooden bats, big league batters can hit the ball at up to 120+ mph (exit speed). So add 20 mph to that if they used aluminum.
Aluminum bats are dangerous enough that they’ll likely be replaced by closely controlled composites even down to Little League.
Better expand the roster to add more pitchers, because you would use 6 starters in 4 days. Might want to add another catcher and a couple of relievers too. And you have to pay for all that with a lot less revenue from ticket sales.
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