MLB sets strikeout record for 12th straight season

Home runs are up too. The Yankees are on pace for three hundred.

This feast-or-famine thing with so many home runs and strikeouts makes the game a lot less exciting. I'd rather see lots of balls put in play; fielders making great catches and throws; baserunners sprinting around.

I know there's an ebb and flow as the years go by and my brand of baseball will be popular again some day, but right now baseball is a lot less fun to watch than it was even five years ago.

Tons of Ks are futile if you also lead the league in HRs like Darvish, who is a top 5 pitcher in Ks across the NL but with a 6-8 W-L record.

I know there's an ebb and flow as the years go by and my brand of baseball will be popular again some day, but right now baseball is a lot less fun to watch than it was even five years ago.

Your brand? Interesting comment. But if you are a fan of "small ball" better to watch the 5A level Japanese "yakkyu".

@Yu--US minor leagues top out at 3A, so are you saying NPB is two levels above that? That would put those small ballers hitting your roof all winter above MLB level, would it not?