Baseball records that can’t, won’t, or shouldn’t be broken
Hey again, I’m Jon, and we’ve hit the seventh-inning stretch. This is a special, super-sized episode of The History of Charging the Mound, and unlike the others, it’s not about any particular mound-charging. Instead, I decided to call an intermission and take inventory of other once-hallowed baseball institutions that have faded from relevance like mound-charging […]
In this special episode of The History of Charging the Mound, the focus is on analyzing other once-critical aspects of baseball that have lost their significance since around 2010. The sudden decline in mound-charging activities coincides with the waning of ultra-high batting averages, hitting streaks, light-hitting ballplayers, and the common practice of pulling pitchers from games during no-hitters.
These practices and accomplishments, while not directly linked to winning games, seem to have played a crucial role in the evolution of baseball. While it is conceivable that baseball might be worse off due to this optimization, it is more accurate to view it as an accelerated phase of change that remains ongoing.
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