Fixing MLB

[DG]

I heard a story once, Ted Williams was asked, long after he retired, about the pitching at present. He was asked to compare against pitchers of his day. He said he would not be able to bat much over .300 against today's pitchers. The questionaire asked if the pitchers were that much better these days, and he said no, I'm in my 60's now...

[zm1283]

I love baseball. It's my favorite sport to officiate and it and the NFL are my favorites to watch. With that said, baseball is a very, very simple game as far as strategy goes when you really get down to it. Execute on offense, make defensive plays, and throw strikes. Now actually doing those things well takes a lot of talent, but you can't tell me that preparing/strategizing for an NFL game is less complicated than figuring out that you need to put the shift on when Ryan Howard is up.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by DG

I heard a story once, Ted Williams was asked, long after he retired, about the pitching at present. He was asked to compare against pitchers of his day. He said he would not be able to bat much over .300 against today's pitchers. The questionaire asked if the pitchers were that much better these days, and he said no, I'm in my 60's now...

I think that despite the differences, baseball players from different generations would be able to compete fairly evenly against players of other times, i.e. players from the 50s/60s would do fine in today's game. I don't know if I would say the same about football. The players are definitely bigger and faster than they were 40-50 years ago, so I would bet the players from past decades would have a harder time with football now than the baseball players would.