Sabermetrics probably hasn’t helped the game either. Seems like bunting is largely extinct and steals seem also to be in decline. Is modern baseball a two outcome sport? Either a homer or a strikeout. I don’t know where baseball ranks among modern sports but I prefer soccer and basketball to modern baseball and have swtiched from collecting modern baseball cards to dead ball era stuff. Prefer the history and allure of the old timers to any modern stars. Trout Shohei etc are all great but none hold a candle to babe ruth.
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