If you follow baseball closely like me, you know something has gone terribly wrong with the game. Fans love to see batters putting the ball in play, runners dashing around the bases, fielders making leaping catches and bee-line throws, and close plays at the bases. All of those have almost disappeared in the last few years.

Action in the Major Leagues has been replaced by strikeouts, walks, and homeruns. None of those result in exciting plays. Almost a quarter of all at-bats now end in strikeouts, a much higher percentage than twenty years ago. Hitters get on base less than a quarter of the time.

These changes in baseball have taken place because the pitchers and batters have been bulking up their muscles and getting more powerful, leading to more strikeouts and more homeruns. Analyzing

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