Missing Bats: Before the strikeout craze, baseball’s ‘Galileos’ fought to change the game
Missing Bats, a special series this week in The Athletic, explores how baseball’s profound metamorphosis over the last two decades traces back to one simple idea — maximizing strikeouts at…
Missing Bats: How an obsession with strikeouts upended the balance of baseball
As a boy pitching on Little League fields in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Tyler Glasnow fixated on missing bats. “Ever since I was a child,” Glasnow said, “any time…
