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Old 05-19-2021, 05:42 AM   #2209
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Originally Posted by tk13 View Post
It's weird how baseball just flip flops between the balls being ridiculously juiced and now this. We're a quarter of the way through the season, no small sample size, and the Mariners are hitting .199 as a team. Obviously batting average isn't everything these days but it's a different story when your team has a under .200 average.

I'm fairly confident they could drag 47 year old Ichiro out of retirement and improve that stat.

The shift is a real issue when it comes to BA, putting balls in play, etc.

Some of it is pitchers maxing out their stuff and using foreign substances to be able to snap off crazy breaking stuff.

But the defensive positioning for everyone is brutalizing batting averages.

I really think it needs some limits. I always come back to limiting the number of times you can shift in a game.

Moving the mound back a foot would probably also be a good idea. Would equalize some of the advantages pitchers have developed.
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