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1000% agree.The way the game is played today vs how it was played back then is a major reason why a lot of people have stopped following the sport.
The game is not nearly as exciting as it used to be because the game has pretty much become a station-to-station game and there's not nearly as much action in the game as there was 30 years ago.
I loved the days when you had several guys across the league stealing 50+ bases. I loved when the ball was put into play more often and it wasn't just guys parading to the plate striking out 200 times. Also, all the extreme defensive shifts have kept even more runners off base.
I believe it was Theo Epstein who said this in a recent interview regarding defensive shifts and analytics in the sport.....baseball's problem is they got too smart for their own good and it's hurt the product on the field and made the sport harder to watch.