How MLB Has Evolved in the Last 10 Years
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Major League Baseball has completely changed in just the last ten years, and some of these changes have been insane. Over the last decade we've watched MLB change a ton, from the players to the strategies and so much more. Hitters have a completely new focus at the plate, pitchers are throwing harder then ever, and teams are using players in totally new ways. In this video let's take a look at how baseball at the major league level has evolved over the last ten years.
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12:46 Biggest difference is the leveling of Tal’s Hill. A violent attack that the game of baseball may never recover from. 😭
Three seconds into the video and I already agree 👍
If you want to chalk it up to “old man shakes fist at cloud”, I get it. But that said, I think these changes are for the worst. Walks are boring, and homers are only exciting for a second. I miss the high average players. Slap hitters like Ichiro and the great Tony Gwynn. Three outcome baseball is much more boring.
Absolutely!
That’s part of why they enlarged the bases, limited pickoff attempts, banned the shift - to make baserunning and hits other than homers relevant so that three outcome baseball is no longer the most optimal strategy.
I do agree I think hits are the most exciting parts of baseball whether that’s a single or a home run
Pitchers throwing harder, nastier, weirder, more deceptively, with more information on their opponents and in more defined roles than ever are all huge hit-deterrents.
Even if you take out changes the mlb made, it changes absolutely nothing. The game is constantly evolving. It's not the mlb it's the coaches and players. Change is natural and expected. All major sports organizations change and evolve over time.
My problem is the teams that make it far and the teams that win the World Series. STILL have more than one guy that can’t hit for a decent average. Like .285+ and teams like the Yankees that rely waaaayyy too much on home runs seem to always go cold once the playoffs come. It’s almost like batting average MATTERS
I find the hitting approach makes much more sense to me than the pitching approach. Having 13 of basically the same style pitchers. It doesn't take much thinking to realize home runs are king and that batting average requires a lot of sequencing luck. I also get the need for several guys who can come in and get strikeouts in key situations. What I don't get is not having ANY starters that pitch to weak contact/don't walk anyone. I would think you'd value some innings eaters, a starter that can go over 250 innings. Especially since finishing 1st or 6th doesn't change your world series odds much, a couple starters that have your arms fresh for the post season seems like it would be valuable.
Agreed
After Bortolo homerun everything changed
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So I agree with this video, seems like overpowering the opponent is the general theme on both sides. I think a team can be perfect if they find a balance between old school baseball and new. Say 4-5 pure contact hitters and then big boppers spread out throughout the remaining spot. A solo homerun is exciting, but a basehit while the bases are loaded are equally exciting and sometimes enough to demoralize the other team. On the other side, I watched Ranger Suarez sport a 7-0 record with a 1.50 era and 0.72 whip topping off at 93 mph on his fastball. That dude is purely a pitcher, and having strong command is really hard for opposing batters. I’d load up on starters who can do simply pitch and stack my BP with dudes who throw 100. Idk I’m not a GM, but finding a balance here could make for a perfect team.
I might be a bit of an old timer when it comes to stats, but I think Batting Average is a very underutilized stat.
I think not being a "free out" or three true outcome player at the dish has it's advantages. Just being able to have the good bat to ball skills and a decent eye at the plate has plenty of opportunity to allow others to do even more damage.
I understand the concept of having the guy who hits .220 with 38 hrs over the year.
but what about having a guy who hits .290 with 25 hrs?
I think players are trying to hit the ball too far nowadays to the point where it's practically unecessary.
There’s a ton of evidence that proves that batting average is one of the worst stats to evaluate a player. Sure a higher batting average is better, but a guy like Kyle schwarber brings way more value than a guy like Luis arraez. You can find hundreds of articles online to explain why.
You could say all this about OBP lol
@@rthraitor to an extent sure, but OBP correlates to success way more than BA. You need a full picture of course, but BA really doesn’t show much of anything
Extreme examples like Schwarber are where I think we run into problems with this, I can't call a hitter with an AVG under .200 good even if your OBP is good and you hit for power cause that's such a big hole in your game, but I'm curious what people think about the more balanced examples like .300 with 20 homers vs .250 with 30 homers? (And I know that's a very specific example and doesn't say much else about the players)
Disagree, hitting is contagious. Schwarber brings no value. Hes garbage. No one is going 1st-3rd on a walk. A single they are though. Strike outs are the worst. Everyone just swings hard and whiffs 40% of the time smh. Cabrera was better in 2013 than any player last year. Batting avg will come back someday and gets its due again. Might take a decade or more , but its importance will be realized again eventually.
Mccutchen also helped lift the pirates to their first playoff appearance since 1992…the stats were only the half of it, he was legit the most valuable player
11:10 Seth lugo has been one of the best pitchers in the league, and he pitches like he mashed a 2013 style with a 2024 rpm
I wished you looked at 2022 more when it was an absolute nightmare for hitters to hit especially with the sticky stuff. 2023 had just implemented the new shift rules and pitch clock, while 2022 was standard baseball for the last nine years.
Remember: strikeouts and fly balls are less likely to result in double plays. This more or less explains everything else. Hitters are not swinging at low pitches, meaning pitchers can’t get cheap grounders, et cetera.
Unless they are pitching to the Yankees, who seem to love the DP, historically.
Younger fans have no idea how exciting the game used to be. The 1986 Mets won game six by returning from a four-run deficit in the 9th inning. They didn't do it with HR'S they did it by hitting singles, stealing bases, and getting walks. I remember being glued to my seat. Now, pitchers don't last 4 innings, they can't get most of their pitches in the strike zone and hitters strike out most of the time. BTW, home runs can be boring compared to a real rally.
My team won the World Series in 2010 and I think we had maybe 2 guys hit 20 homers. We won by slapping the ball all over the field and it was exciting to watch. Now it's a chore to watch any game because of how the games played now.
@@theb3654 Well, now it's all about getting walks and hitting home runs. They had to enlarge the bases to encourage more stolen bases because the game had become so boring.
@@theb3654 It's all about the algorithm. Baseball is run by computers and statistics.
@@fr2ncm9 True they have sabermetriced all the fun and excitement out the game.
How certain moments changed the game forever; for example the Bautista home run , tatis 3-0 bomb, why they platoon more than trust their players or even players marketing their free agency like manny booting Aguilar in 2018
Killing the shift never sat well with me. If a professional can’t put in play the opposite way, that’s their fault.
day 1 of asking you to drop the 9 hour long rabbit hole cut
Baseball needs to find a good middle ground. You still need guys that hit for average and get singles. 2 singles and then a home run is way more effective than 2 strike outs and a solo shot. Need both. Lunch angle has ruined some guys careers
Why do you say that please?
Its become incredibly boring to watch guys walk strikeout or homer. I would watch most of my teams games 10 - 15 years ago, now I barely watch any because its incredibly boring.
What team are you a fan of?
@@MustacheDLuffy Giants but thats irrelevant because I would watch any game that was on
And I’ve hated it more and more
Am I the only one who is down for the 9-hour video lmao
My dodgers this year old school. We going 6 and 7 innings on this one
While we can all agree the game has changed a lot in the last decade, it seems like many of these stats are within what might be a normal distribution, and only a few of them are really stark. But you're the stat guy, so you gotta play to your strengths :-)
The biggest change I'd say is the bat flipping bullshit and general punk ass behavior.
I'm not enough of a nerd to know what's statistically significant, but I figure when we're talking about the average of all the players in MLB a couple percentage points is a big difference, but I could be wrong.
I agree to an extent on the celebrations, I'm all for guys having fun and celebrating good play, but I see guys celebrating stuff like jam shot singles that just found a hole, and I'd be furious if that was me cause I'd know I didn't do well and just got lucky.
I wish Pedro and those guys were still around to remind them why bat flipping is a poor idea.
Yet pitchers intentionally hitting batters because they hurt their feelings isn’t punk ass behavior?
More like how baseball has Devolved
Why do you say this please?
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te I would probably have to watch this video again to answer your question more specifically but in short, the game is so data driven, pitchers hardly pitch & get hurt all the time because they all train to keep adding velo every year, launch angle and exit velocity (plus bat speed which is new this year) are ruining the fan experience of having more drastically different types of hitters in lineups… All of this plus several other factors make the game less enjoyable for many people like myself who remembers how the game once was not too long ago. Plus don’t even get me started on how much Rob Manfred has changed and ruined the game of baseball
Sometimes you talk too fast- love coach G 😙
Also adding a clear break between each major topic would help with basic understanding in a breakdown like this
Baseball lost me about 6 years ago. I still follow the game through youtubers and podcasts but teams complete reliance on analytics based outcomes made the game stale for me. Even if the old style of baseball was less efficient I still enjoyed myself more watching baseball from the 90's, 2000's and most of the 2010's more than current baseball.
No more singles to score runs? Someone hasn't seen a guardians game the last 3 years
Exception not the norm
Good shit my boy
Homers are for casual fans. Real fans enjoy small ball and strategy.
Why do you say this please? How do you know?
Dumping Gatorade on a walk-off in June, the video-gamification of the closer coming in, ridiculous bat flipping and taunting... baseball's biggest evolution is the culture, not the way the game is played, and the culture has been an overall negative. Yes, I'm an old 40 year old man, get off my lawn. Edit: good video, I'm a new sub
Narcissistic Culture. MLB's becoming NBA and NFL
Juiced balls, cozier ballparks, guys swinging from their heels, and pitchers not pitching but throwing. They blow their arms out all the time due to poor mechanics. The true thinking fan is aghast at rules being changed every year like the NFL. The game as we knew it is gone. RIP.
Wholeheartedly agreed...
You could just say Ohtani and it would say really all that needs to be said.
?Framing pitches" is the worst thing going on i9n Baseball. It's legal cheating. The catcher pulls a ball into the strike zone, and the ump calls it a strike. Awful. Makes me want to see the robo-strike zone enacted.
It’s not cheating. This will always happen as long as robot umps don’t exist.
That's the beauty of the game. Baseball is cheating. It is the American way.
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Extra innings runner, Pitch clock 💩💩 i started watching baseball in 2010 at the age of 16
You spelled ‘evolved’ wrong.
There’s supposed to be a D at the front.
I love the changes. More runs and shorter games make things more exciting.
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it definitely was better without Nike involved
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Only fools think hitting is more exciting then good pitching tbh
everything is worse, and it’s not even close
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Baseball is going backwards with the lack of black ball players. The excitement left with black ball players.
Lol wut? Whered they go?
@@kenw2225 Black players in MLB is at an all time low. Not me saying it. MLB statistics say it. It's an easy Google.
Culture and genetics are geared more for basketball and football. I wouldn’t say the lack of them is the reason baseball is struggling
@@JakeyD360 Culture and genetics, what a idiot.
This is a really dumb and slightly racist comment.
Great video! Got my sub
Don’t like the “new” age of baseball as much as when I first got into it back in 2010..and no I’m not a boomer I’m 24