Brian Kenny compares modern era to dead ball era
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2021
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I'll add the home run rate was very low in the dead ball era but because of how ball parks were constructed, most of those homeruns were inside the parkers. So they were rare but when they did happen...oh boy it must have been really exciting to watch.
I'd love to see some dead ball baseball. That era was awesome. I love my HRs but I agree with Brian. More pitching duels, more dead ball baseball.
You should watch Cleveland my friend. They're winning with old school baseball, great pitching and defense, and an offense built on speed and batting average.
@@geoffa87 No..not watching the Indians. lol
@@VL1975 ok boomer
@@VL1975 who are the “Indians” ? A team in India ? Do you mean the Guardians ?
@@bigben618 Indians.
As much as the home run can be a thing of beauty, in all honesty, I think that baseball is at its most fun on the basepaths. Two changes that I think would make a big difference are bringing back the letter high strike (to encourage more contact and have fewer walks), and push back the outfield fences.
I totally agreee
1911 and 1912 were unusual offensive years during the Deadball Era (1903-1919) The rest of the Deadball years were extremely low offense. 1908 was even less offense than 1968!!
I was thinking that too! My initial instinct was that it wasn't the best year for the example due to bring kind of an anomaly... but then again so is 2019, so I think they're actually well-matched in that way haha.
I was thinking that players where getting HBP way more in 1912 then now, but not true. teams where getting hit 44.8 times a year, in 2019 it was 66.1.
They were getting hit more then, if those numbers are accurate. There were only 16 teams then, so almost half. They played slightly less games tho (154). Still if you compare them as equal, they'd be getting hit roughly 82-85 times per year
@@johns8902 your saying dead ball era batters would be getting hit 80-85 times a season? i think your math is way off. let me tell you about Brian Gueyer then. 2016, Started 80 games, Hit by pitch 30 times. his career hit by pitch percentage was just shy of 6% where most people is 0.58%. this is per plate appearance and his is by far the highest, so i know your math is wrong. hes also the only player to be hit by pitch in back to back games as a pinch hitter. Guy just loved getting hit by a pitch. If he had a full 20 seasons like huegh Jennings, even in the dead ball era number of games, Gueyer would have been hit by pitch 672 times or more. Way way more than huegh Jennings 287.
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It'll be interesting to see if the dead-ball small ball playstyle makes a resurgence if the pitching keeps improving and the balls stay dead.
Guys in 1912 also weren’t throwing 97 mph fastballs and offspeeds that break 8 inches.... so it’s not that straight forward of a comparison
They were throwing more dangerous stuff because there was no regulation on what pitchers could use on the balls.
@Cold Snap I do, but without pace you can see what’s coming and adjust. Like you’re swinging at wiffleballs. Hitting in the early 1900’s is no where near comparable to modern day baseball...
1912 was throwing spitballs lmaooo
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@Cold Snap I very highly doubt he’d be hitting.450
i like all of this
I want some action… HRs are like eh now, you’ll see someone hit one then for the rest of the game they either, strikeout, groundout, flyout, or walk but even if they do walk it’s not like they’ll steal and put the game in motion.
I agree that there needs to be a cut in HR for OBP but I’m not sure if this is the way to do it. Though it will be very Interesting with today’s stadiums
Sounds like a much faster, fluid and contentious game.
heck yeah
Agreed!!!!
Let’s do it.
Miss more deadball era. Why are they killing baseball? Remember steroid era?? It was so entertaining! Baseball is dying to nba and NFL
The NBA is having massive problems with fan interest too though. I personally don't know anyone that follows it anymore and TV ratings are worse than ever
The problem with most main stream pro-sports is that they have all sacrifced themselves on the alter of big buisness. So they have artifacially tried to make the games more exciting usually by letting the offence run rampant on the expense of the defense. Which has made some records easy to break while others have become almost unbreakable.
@@DoctorHver the problem with sports today is all the SJW bullshit. People tune in to escape the problems of the world and these woke athletes are bring them into the sport. The NBA is the worst right now and the ratings are really showing it. I use to watch primetime games and wouldn't miss a playoff game if I could now I have zero interest in it and it's the same way for a lot of people.
I want dead ball baseball but with homeruns too
Move the rubber back to 62’ and clear this all up
yeah but you had pitchers back then that were running off the field to go help voulenteer fireman when they heard sirens or just walk off mid inning and say im done for the day, im going to get a drink at the bar. you have less things happen now because you have people dialed in from when they were kids. In the dead ball era kids were kids, pick up games were pick up games. But those pro players back then arent hitting the 2 ErA pitchers of today, the hitters today are crushing the pitchers back then, some which throwing like 70 starts a season. the players are better everything is just dialed in. Look at the model T vs the Tesla 3. Enough said. after a few laughs watching baseball back then, or driving a model T, were like yeah ok ive had enough this. its only good when its all you know.
I love when who think they know baseball to shit on the baseball of 100 yrs ago. If pitchers are throwing 70 starts a year, that means they were more durable than the wussies of 5 innings and done pitchers of today.
I'm sure dead ball baseball tv ratings would be just as dead. I love baseball but this is the wrong approach to grab new fans. The HR will always be king to the occasional fan.
Might as well just forget about teams and just have a home run derby every week. Its not the occasional fan MLB needs to please. Its the the fan between occasional and diehard fan.
Both ways of playing can be exciting. At the same time i dont care if someone hits a solo hr while behind 11-1 in the 9th with 2 outs. Or if a guy steals 2nd while ahead 8-1 in the 8th.
This won't work and home runs are great. Baseball will continue to deteriorate and be non-competitive unless they can somehow put a salary cap back in.
There’s no need for salary cap. All they need is the fields to be all sorts of messed up and it’d be fine. Like the old Astro stadium where they had the hill in center or the fields that aren’t basic like today
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Brian Kenny be careful what you wish for? ... As of today 5/26/2021offence is way down and MLB is already trying to figure out what changes their gonna implement next year to increase offence production. Changes AGAIN to the baseball and limiting the shift are just two. Changing the baseball is the dumbest thing ever. As far as I'm concerned every player shoud have an Asterisk marked with the type of baseball used for that year when they break a hitting record... Please figure out what type of ball you want to use and stop fucking with the baseball. Hockey doesnt mess with the puck every year, neither does football, basketball or soccer. STOP FUCKING WITH THE BASEBALL!!!
Gahd. Baseball is so boring.
There are way too many games in a season and each game takes like 4 fuckin hours.
Shorten the season, shorten the games, and reduce the unnecessary delays.
Give the pitchers 30 seconds between each pitch, and for the love of christ, stop chucking the ball around for 5 minutes after every batter and before every inning.
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How to make baseball exciting again: ballparks must have more fair territory--a minimum of 115,000 square feet. If any fence is less than 350 feet from the plate, it must have a 20 foot wall.
Place a maximum of 10 pitchers on the active roster and make it so that if a pitcher is removed from the active roster, he cannot return for 60 days. It would require pitchers pacing and not throwing 100%, as Christy Mathewson said he threw 100% anout 5 pitches a game.
Larger fields would make the big but slow players obsolete and require fast, finesse players.
Players like Willie Davis, Lou Brock, Curt Flood, Matty Alou, Bert Campaneris, and Maury Wills were exciting. Today's 185 K/35 HR, .240 batting average player is boring and makes MLB unwatchable.
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