
Starting in 2019, MLB tried to cap the number of pitchers a team could carry on its active roster to stem the tide of guys with otherworldly stuff coming out of the bullpen one inning at a time. The 2022 season ended with the lowest league-wide batting average since 1968, the Year of the Pitcher - even though 2022 was the first year of the universal designated hitter and the year after the league cracked down on sticky stuff in an effort to curtail pitchers’ runaway dominance in what had been widely dubbed the Year of the Pitcher, Part 2. In May 2022, ESPN published a thorough and damning look at the total absence of offense just a month into the season, when teams were “scoring the fewest runs per game in four decades, posting the worst OPS in more than 50 years and hitting for the lowest batting average ever one month into the season.”ĭrawing attention to it didn’t fix anything, of course. But you don’t have to go that far into the weeds to see how the scoring environment - by which I mean the lack thereof - has been a growing crisis in the game. Last year, I wrote (along with Zach Crizer) about the cutting edge and somewhat surreptitious technology teams were employing in an effort to give their hitters a fighting chance against the modern pitcher’s all-but-unhittable arsenal. Other MLB.This has been an interest of mine for a while - hitting has always been a study in failure, yet modern advancements have focused, for good reason, on optimizing getting outs. Changelog not available for this versionįor more information on downloading MLB.com to your phone, check out our guide: how to install APK files.Subscribe to the service to get all the features.Find everything there is to know about the players and the teams.Watch live matches without interruptions.Check out the latest scores and leaderboards in MLB.Users will be able to check out key plays from every game with Live Look-Ins without any kind of restrictions they can listen to Home, Away & Spanish-language (where available) radio broadcasts, and even check out a vast library of recorded matches at any time.

Also, users will get notifications for Cut4’s offbeat short-form content, and some other events. If you choose to also get a subscription at MLB.com, you will also get access to 60fps videos for unmatched high-quality streaming of select live MLB.TV broadcasts and highlight clips. Users will find all the latest scores, leaderboards, and other useful information, but the application provides much more than just that.


Keeping track of everything that’s happening in American baseball is difficult, but with the help of the official app, it can get a lot easier.
