ROTISSERIE: The new normal (maybe)
Mar 14 2018
We keep hearing warnings and advice about the new baseball landscape... Power is up, so you can wait on power. Speed is more scarce. More players hitting the DL. Pitchers and strikeouts. Higher attrition among closers. We know the game changes. We've had the dead-ball era, the PED era, the high mound era, and now the swing-for-the-fences era. As the game changes, so should our strategy. But before we can adjust our strategy, we need to know how the game has changed. We need numbers.
Numbers
Home runs (and offense in general) are up. Some evidence suggests that a change in the manufacturing process of baseballs created a livelier ball, beginning in mid-2015. In 2014, the last year of the "post-PED, pre-bouncy-ball era," the top 220...
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