How does he really feel? :)
I wonder if he’s gonna be in trouble for this.
The Twins have 166 home runs so far. They had 166 home runs in the entire 2018 season.
it makes watching professional sports not as fun because you know when the fix is in.....
I think the NCAA is the same.....
and nascar...
Could you imagine what Mickey Mantle could have done with these balls? Heck, even Dave Kingman.
At least they’re not underinflated.
Yes, MLB owns the ball manufacturing... Verlander, as a pitcher, should be aware of ongoing discussions to move the mound 2’ further away from home plate. Plus, mindful of past changes in the mound height.
If all balls are equal for both teams, what MLB is really doing is rewriting the history books for the sport.
Same thing can be said of Golf. The equipment today has made many courses obsolete for pros. There are LPGA players driving the green on par 4’s now. When I first started playing with my persimmon wood driver in the 80’s, I could drive 200 yards. 3 decades later with a bad back, I can drive 300 yds with an aluminum driver the size of slop pail. The material is many times harder and sweet spot is many times as big as it once was.
Baseball is becoming increasingly a game of all or nothing hitting.
In 2018, 25% of runs scored were home runs.
In 2018, 13% of hits were home runs.
In 2018 there were 41,207 strikeouts, topping last year’s 40,104.
For the 2018 season there were more strikeouts than hits for the first time in baseball history, 41,207 strikeouts, 41,019 hits.
There were 6,105 home runs in both leagues last year, a record.
Since the year 2000, there have been 97,343 home runs.
The contact hitter is becoming a thing of the past. (Though the 2018 Red Sox are a refreshing exception, or so it seems to me.)
Joe Sewell is the best contact hitter of all time.
Joe Sewell struck out 114 times in his entire career! In 1925 in 608 at bats he struck out all of 4 times. Sewell holds the record for the lowest strikeout rate in major league history, striking out on average only once every 62.5 at-bats, and the most consecutive games without a strikeout, at 115.
Even Babe Ruth never struck out over 100 times in a season.
Link below are stats for the 2018 season:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2018.shtml
what does this mean? what are they doing to the balls? It didnt say at the site.
AAA league started using MLB basesalls this season.
Big increase in AAA league HRs this year
Quelle koinkidink.
Said EVERY pitcher, EVER...