Hank Aaron, a Hall of Fame member, says that he would not be able to hit the pitchers of today: they would send me to the class D ball

LOS ANGELES – The Major League Baseball as a whole in 2018 has shattered the previous record for strikeouts in one season. The total number of high exits is a favorite target of fans of the "old school" who think that everything is better "in my time". Nowadays, the players are sort of described as some kind of bad guys who do not work hard enough on the basics – that's why they "do not know how to challenge", after all – and do not even care about scratching the stick.

The reality is that players absolutely do not want to scratch and this happens often, besides the difficulty in wrapping, is because throwers are exponentially better than before. In the early 1980s, hard throwers could hit the mid-90s. There were not many. Today, they seem to be coming out of an assembly line. There are occasional amateur pitchers who have never heard of hitting at three digits.

And then there is the breaking thing. The clichés that were not there at the time of the "good old days" include the separator, the cutter and even variations of the cursor.

At the time of launching someone like Noah Syndergaard in the mid-1960s, with a heat reaching 100 km / h and a slider reaching 90 degrees, he would have easily published an appraisal report of less than 1.00 .

Do not agree? Ask one of the greatest hitters of all time in one Hank Aaron:

"Throughout the league, all through the league, these kids can play, throw hard," said Aaron before the third game of the World Series. "I think I made that remark last year and I'll come back to that," I told Willie Mays, "if he and I were playing, they'd probably send us a D class balloon." because we would not know how to hit those guys 100 miles to the hour. It would be hard to learn how to do that. "

"But that's baseball, it's baseball." I looked at it [Hank Aaron Award winner J.D. Martinez] Play and walk up to the plate and hit someone who launches 100 miles at the time saying: oh, my God, I could not do it. "

Gasp!

I do not know, but just a suggestion: Maybe we should like to play baseball at the highest level of its history instead of complaining about the quality of its content? I know I know. It's delusional to think that a certain crowd is capable of such an awareness.