Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
It's a multi-facetted issue.

College baseball is headed towards the same 3 outcome problem MLB has: HR, BB, K & very little action on the bases or defensively.

This is due to a few reasons:

1. Technology has allowed pitchers to make major gains due to pitch design, velocity building, & game planning.
2. However, what technology has found is that high fast balls are the best fastballs to create swing & miss. They give up more HRs though.
3. Hitters on the other hand, have realized that getting 3 hits in an inning off pitchers that have used pitch design & are throwing 95 is extremely unlikely. Thus, they are trying to hit HRs.

The end result is that we've got 3 outcomes. HR, K, or BB. Run scoring on the whole has remained fairly constant, so the hitters' approach is working, but it just creates a more boring game where athleticism isn't as much of a factor.
Would the option of moving fences back 20/30 feet make a big difference?