There are currently 82 players in PGB hitting below .200
League Batting Avg is .242
League Record Low Batting Avg: .249 in 2019
Strikeouts per Game: 17.61
League Record for Most Strikeouts: 17.06 in 2020
8 teams have On Base Pct below .310
3 teams have Slugging Pct below .400
Scoring is down a run a game- 9.76 runs /game in 2021 vs 10.76 in 2020
Homeruns are down slightly- 2.97 in 2021 vs 3.19 last year
At least our games don't take 4 hours to complete!
The tickets were in the upper corner, probably 550 feet from home, so that didn't help. Scott is right about the joy of being back in the ballpark, but even more than the pace/three true outcomes, I get annoyed with having a barrage of Delta, Best Buy, Pentair, Target, Budweiser, StarTribune, LeafGutter and Treasure Island Casino ads assaulting me nonstop for three hours. But here's the other thing: I still love reading about, thinking about, and talking about the game. Cue the James Earl Jones speech from Field of Dreams...