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<blockquote data-quote="FollowTisdale" data-source="post: 1451696" data-attributes="member: 619279"><p>I guess I didn't really look into how offense changed, i just knew it jumped significantly after the mound lowering.</p><p></p><p>I think the cats out of the bag as far as guys selling out for power. Like I said, it's like the 3 in basketball, until homeruns and doubles quit being worth 4 and 2 bases, it will always be better to sell out for power. There are contact guys still around, but the guy slapping singles is just never going to be worth as much as a guy who knows how to take a walk and swings for the fence. The math just doesn't work.</p><p></p><p>If you look at the top 30 strictly offensive players last year, only 7 of them had a SLG under .500, and a lot of those guys needed unsustainable BABIPs to be valuable or just guys with elite walk rates. Go to 2017, and the number of top 30 hitters with SLG under .500 is 1 guy, noted randomly good/ randomly crap hitter Erik Hosmer</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FollowTisdale, post: 1451696, member: 619279"] I guess I didn't really look into how offense changed, i just knew it jumped significantly after the mound lowering. I think the cats out of the bag as far as guys selling out for power. Like I said, it's like the 3 in basketball, until homeruns and doubles quit being worth 4 and 2 bases, it will always be better to sell out for power. There are contact guys still around, but the guy slapping singles is just never going to be worth as much as a guy who knows how to take a walk and swings for the fence. The math just doesn't work. If you look at the top 30 strictly offensive players last year, only 7 of them had a SLG under .500, and a lot of those guys needed unsustainable BABIPs to be valuable or just guys with elite walk rates. Go to 2017, and the number of top 30 hitters with SLG under .500 is 1 guy, noted randomly good/ randomly crap hitter Erik Hosmer [/QUOTE]
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