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Originally Posted by tk13
It's why I can't believe they'd do it. No way it would make the game shorter.
It was a different time for sure and it was a more dramatic mound adjustment because they moved it back several feet.. but when they moved the mound back to the current distance in 1893, scoring skyrocketed about 3 runs a game.
No doubt baseball was different then, but in 1892 Boston won the pennant averaging about 5 runs a game with a sub-3 team ERA and one player on the whole team with a .300 average.
Two years later Baltimore won the pennant scoring 9 runs a game with a 5.00 team ERA. All 8 starting position players hit over .300 and had at least 92 RBI.
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On the bright side maybe it’ll get Alex Gordon to hit better