If there's one thing that has frustrated the MLB over the past 20 years, it's the advent of fewer kids wanting to participate in baseball and the rise of more kids (including girls) wanting to turn baseball into a nerd thing where one is not viewing the glory and beauty of the simple things like the sacrifice bunt, or the devilish trickery behind being left handed. Instead, these un-athletes (read: those possessing far fewer than the requisite five tools plus one penis) have taken to devolving human beings into numbers more complicated than five (plus one) and further, with the advent of computer machines, into bits and bytes and ones and zeros.
The MLB wants more kids to play baseball where 30% success rates equate to 110% effort
