Strikeouts are killing baseball

How was Buehrle difficult to watch? His games were over in 2:20. My wife loved when he pitched when I was on the Sox. I'd be home an hour early.

 

Don't know, but here's an 18-pitch AB.

 

In 2010, the Giants beat the Rockies 2-1 when Kaz Matsui hit a flyball to end a bases-loaded, 15-pitch at-bat against Brian Wilson. That was dramatic.

 

I don't think 6+-foul -ball at-bats is really a big problem in MLB; I'd guess it probably happens two or three times a game.

You can't put in a one-way penalty. There has to be a possible payoff for the offense too. You'd have to make it something like, on the fourth foul ball, if it hits the ground in foul territory, the batter is out, but if it goes in the stands on the fly, it becomes a base on balls. Some kind of linkage that if you hit the ball (relatively) solidly, you get rewarded, whereas if you just scuffle off a weak grounder, you're out.

But better yet, just forget it. If baseball has 1000 problems, at-bats lasting a dozen pitches or longer because of foul balls is about No. 973.

 

And if it goes through the clown's mouth it's a hole in one.

 

• Too many pitches.
• Too much time in between pitches.
• Too many pitching changes.

Those are baseball's three problems. Everything else is just like Republicans who want to solve budget issues by cutting programs that take up 0.1 percent of the federal budget.

 

A renewed focus on RAW would fix two of the three.

Happy birthday, Rick Reuschel! He proved that you could scatter hits and get Ws. He could field his position, handle the bat, and run the bases.

 

I don't know what "RAW" is.

 

RAW focuses primarily on the lifeblood of baseball -- RBI and wins. It also utilizes the eye test and intangibles.

 

This does not answer my question.

 

For your earlier post, it would fix the issues because pitchers would be focused on pitching longer, scattering hits, reducing pitch counts, and earning wins.

 

Teams should adopt a strategy that would lead to less wins over the course of a season in order to make the game more aesthetically pleasing for the likes of me?

Good luck with finding a first taker on that.