• sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Baseball: no more home runs. If it goes out of the park it’s a foul. It will force a much more dynamic infield game and get rid of boring ass pop flys.

    Edit: exception for grand slams because that shit is pretty exciting.

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      19 hours ago

      I say a home run is an out. Really put the pressure on them. I would also make it easier to hit, there are a variety of ways to do that. Might have to allow an extra outfielder though. But the idea is to make it less of a pitcher vs hitter game. Make fielding matter, cause that skill ahs really gone down the tubes the last few decades.

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      1 day ago

      Maybe something like you get as many bases as you have runners on base, plus one. Leave it in the game as a universal positive, but make it anticlimactic unless you’ve got guys playing small ball first.

      Baseball in general just seems like it’s as close to a “solved game” as you’re going to get in an athletic contest. Analytics were just too powerful for a game so focused on discrete events with limited active participants.