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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 5142225, member: 7631"] Have the games gotten better? Not from where I’m watching. I used to love baseball and watched a lot of it. I can’t remember the last time I watched a game. Analytics (sabermetrics) ruined it. It seemed that fewer than half of at-bats ended with a ball batted in play. They want pitchers to throw strikeouts and hitters to draw walks and hit home runs. None of those involves balls in play. The emphasis on walks leads to hitters taking more pitches and thus more stoppages for pitching changes. (Also analytics lead to more pitchers being brought in to face one hitter.) The emphasis on strikeouts leads to more pitchers blowing out their arms. And a lot of basketball has been rendered unwatchable because of the number of threes jacked up. I still enjoy track & field and cycling. [/QUOTE]