radness
Possibilities & Opportunities!
- Dec 13, 2019
- 7,270
- 113
I did some research awhile back on the WCWS for the past 3 decades. Mostly hitting stats.
Some of the changes are pretty stark. Hitters have improved, IMO. So have bats. Didn't the pitcher's plate get moved back in the early '90s? That could explain something, too, although I think most of the '90s was played like now.
View attachment 22096
Changes from earlier years include
1. It changed dramatically when they changed from the old dabeers and diamond white softballs to the now used yellow rockets. The flight differences are definitely measurable!
2. Pitching then moved back 3 feet.
3. The rules changed for batters in the box.
Used to have to make an attempt to move out of the way of the a pitch. Now can just stand there and let the pitch hit you to get 1st base. Which took away pitch locations, definitely chaned the inside river.
= BIG DIFFERENCES
Also people may attribute the lighter technology bats.
imo while the bats are lighter.
We still got our older heavier aluminum bats around fast.
Pitching was closer!
Try 70mph released from 35' away. Then 50mph change up. THINK FAST
Thanku for posting the compairison years @Nimrod
changes were made to speed up the game and put more/other action into it.
( instead of a pitchers duel)more base runners. more home runs. created more fan base. we can see that it works, instead of many low no scoring games,
and few base runners.
which reminds me of another thing that was implemented and that's the international tiebreaker rule. Because games would go on and on itb= they put a runner on base.
Last edited: