New baseball = more offense at CWS

[Bulldogg31]

Interesting stats now that every team has played one game:

Overall BA for all teams is up 50 points over 2014.

Already 4 HR's this year, total of 3 for entire tourney last year.


Also, it's basically illegal to get hit by a pitch. Amazing how fast Cohen's gameplan for the past few years became outdated.

 

[RebelBruiser]

One of the biggest things is that the threat of the long ball opens up the outfield for singles and doubles.

When outfielders can play at Little League depth with little threat of having to backtrack for a ball, it's a lot harder to find somewhere to hit the baseball. Just that threat of gappers and long balls opens up the rest of the game.

 

[WrapItDog]

Make that 5 HRs. Miami just added one. Vandy walk of HR first one in many years according to announcer. I think he said 4 or 6 years.

 

[patdog]

Good point. When decent hitters can crush a mistake pitch and it's just a routine fly ball out, that's not good baseball.

 

[Bulldogg31]

The games at TD Ameritrade are the best proof yet that this new ball is jumping. Hopefully it won't take us long to get on board, both in terms of equipment and personnel.

 

[BiscuitEater]

And then there's ..

Overall BA for all teams is up 50 points over 2014.Already 4 HR's this year, total of 3 for entire tourney last year.

that 'high scoring' UVA - Florida thriller where Florida gets a whopping two hits in a 1-0 shutout.

 

[patdog]

That's the great thing about using the right equipment. Good pitching is still rewarded. But bad pitching gets punished. That's the way it should be.

 

[thekimmer]

True. That last ball against OSU would have left the yard in '13.....

We would have lost game 1 and likely never made it to the CS.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

Everyone in the stadium knew that ball was gone. Except for Hunter Renfroe.

/pimped the fly out
//weight room