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Despite introducing shift restrictions this season, Major League Baseball can do little to get more hits into the game.
This year, MLB batters were hitting .249, the fourth consecutive year below .250. Hitters struck out in 22.7% of all plate appearances.
For some, this is evidence that this generation of hitters has sacrificed the purity of hitting for the allure of swinging for the fences.
I can’t go there. As much as I enjoyed the baseball of the 1980s and ’90s, when there were a whole
