HEAD-TO-HEAD: A Review of the 2023 Hitter Pools

By David Martin February 15th, 2023 2:03am

Introduction

According to Baseball Reference, in 2022 the MLB league-wide batting average was .243. You need to go back 54 years, to 1968, to find a time when the league had a lower batting average (.237). Do you know what happened after the 1968 season? The league lowered the pitcher's mound by 5 inches to its current height of 10 inches.

Full text available to BaseballHQ full subscription subscribers only. Please Subscribe at https://www.baseballhq.com/subscribe


Click here to subscribe

  For more information about the terms used in this article, see our Glossary Primer.

User login

Forgot Password?

Shopping Cart



First Pitch Arizona 2023
November 2-5, 2023
Mesa, Arizona


REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

Podcasts