Brian Kenny compares modern era to dead ball era

I think we need a happy medium, Brian, à la the 20s--50s.

Today’s players are far too spoiled to experience anything even remotely close to that era.

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.

The ball wasn’t juiced back then as much. Baseball times change , people got more enamored watching a fatass hit a ball over the fence .

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.

i like all of this

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!!

Sounds like a much faster, fluid and contentious game.

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.

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.

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'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.

Agreed!!!!

Let’s do it.

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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.

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.

Move the rubber back to 62’ and clear this all up

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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

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!!!

I totally agreee

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.

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.

Miss more deadball era. Why are they killing baseball? Remember steroid era?? It was so entertaining! Baseball is dying to nba and NFL

heck yeah

I want dead ball baseball but with homeruns too

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.

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