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A-Rod made a great comment on Sunday night.

Posted on: August 4, 2020 at 15:58:20 CT

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It has never been easier to hit a home run, and it has never been harder to get a base hit.

As a result, you get a lot of strikeouts. So, yes, the philosophy has completely changed

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The Royals have an amazingly bad strikeout total thus far at - SEC_BIG_GAMEHUNTER SEC - 8/4 15:28:35

The Braves have struck out more - Tptiger MU - 8/4 17:25:52

The royals suck. - RHAYWORTH MU - 8/4 16:28:58

i hope its not always going to be 50 years in - SEC_BIG_GAMEHUNTER SEC - 8/4 21:25:47

FIRE MATHENY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (nm) - KCT-BoneTiger A - 8/4 16:02:35

So many people are so disappointed you weren't in - SabertoothTiger MU - 8/4 16:03:35

wouldn't mind hittin up the Route 66 Museum down there - KCT-BoneTiger A - 8/4 16:09:17

5 years ago they preached swing and contact. At least give - SabertoothTiger MU - 8/4 15:49:54

KEEP YOUR ELBOW UP, old sport. (nm) - KCT-BoneTiger A - 8/4 16:09:50

I'm not tiger90 so I'm not bitter and cranky or wish you - SabertoothTiger MU - 8/4 16:14:19

i'm pretty sure I only have wished doc dead here, but - 90Tiger STL - 8/4 16:47:27

A-Rod made a great comment on Sunday night. - meatiger MU - 8/4 15:58:20

That is not really true though. Look at how often teams - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/4 16:07:03

Seriously? You think you have figured out the key to ending - kmawv8 MU - 8/4 16:21:29

evendently they no longer preach "hit the ball where - tigerinhogtown STL - 8/4 16:32:43

There are very few players that can consistently hit - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/4 16:36:17

I agree, but that is exactly what he was saying - tigerinhogtown STL - 8/4 16:40:30

Yes, I do think it should be easy for someone who literally - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/4 16:31:43

a good player can beat the shift. Not even a great one. - SabertoothTiger MU - 8/4 16:24:49

Then there must not be many good players left in the - kmawv8 MU - 8/4 16:27:31

I don't think there are. I think they all want to hit - SabertoothTiger MU - 8/4 22:53:21

It works because players continue to try to pull the ball - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/4 16:34:17

I tend to agree with this. A-rod was a great player that - SabertoothTiger MU - 8/4 16:09:04

For his career he struck out about once every 4.5 at bats. - DHighlander NWMSU - 8/4 16:15:40

It shouldn't change for the royals. Building a team around - SabertoothTiger MU - 8/4 16:01:38

I say this because it seemed like the players were taking a - SabertoothTiger MU - 8/4 15:55:04

Dayton Moore has assembled one of the worst rosters - Ron Swanson MU - 8/4 15:41:15

The team assembled in the WS run - playhard NWMSU - 8/5 08:40:54

heard yesterday so far 18 strikeouts per 9 inning game - tigerinhogtown STL - 8/4 15:30:55

this guy got the proverbial and quintessential.... - SEC_BIG_GAMEHUNTER SEC - 8/4 15:29:30

The Royals are the Sanka of baseball.(nm) - Carlos Rossi KC - 8/4 15:42:57