I have a friend who sees things in an odd way. His son had just failed introductory college French as a mandatory language requirement. But my friend had a logical explanation:
“He doesn’t know French.”
That’s what has happened to MLB by MLB. If players, managers, GMs and analytics savants last season all wore “Kick Me” sandwich boards, what ails baseball couldn’t have been more clear.
For the first time, batters had more strikeouts than hits. The average per team was 1,374 strikeouts to 1,367 hits.
The reasons were plain; ya couldn’t miss ’em. 1) Regardless of the count and game circumstances, batters tried to hit home runs.