Jane Leavy wants chaos back in baseball. Less optimization, more unveiling a hidden pitch the third time through the order.
“Baseball used to tell great stories about guys who figured out how to get someone out the third time around,” Leavy noted. “Kept a pitch in a back pocket, they used to say, that they hadn’t shown a guy – not just in that game, but maybe in the three previous times they’d faced each other. [The modern game] eliminates the canniness. It eliminates thought. It eliminates challenging yourself and, what’s more, it eliminates the kind of stories that that kind of pitching ace produced.”
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