MLB needs more runners on base. It needs batters stretching their hits. It needs base stealing.
Shorten the base paths by 2 feet and you get the game we grew up loving to watch and play.
Yes, you're right. And hitters NOT trying to hit the ball out of the park all the time would solve that. And please don't try to say that a hitter in your lineup with the most total bases, lots of doubles and triples yet few homeruns ............ wouldn't get the big $$$$$'s.
MLB needs more runners on base. It needs batters stretching their hits. It needs base stealing. -------
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"Shorten the base paths by 2 feet and you get the game we grew up loving to watch and play."
LMAO --- that is one foolish thing to say. Firstly......... IT WON'T HAPPEN.
Secondly .......... who are you trying to help with that ridiculous idea, the batter or the fielders?
That's just absurd
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If you want to change the game in any real, beneficial way ......LOWER THE MOUND TO HALF ITS HEIGHT. Being a student of kinesiology, it is quite well known that there is much less stress on a pitcher's shoulder when throwing on a level surface, rather than DOWN off a "MOUND".
So, I say if anything should or could be altered it is the height of the pitcher's mound.
“It needs more ACTION!”
Baseball has more action and drama than any other sport, by far.
And that action and drama is concentrated in the battle between pitcher and batter. The action is not the balls hit and runner moving.
The action is the pitching.
If you don’t appreciate that, you should find another sport.