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Better pitching (at least higher velocity, better load management) and less emphasis on contact, more on three true outcomes.

Pitchers don't try to coax groundouts and flyouts like they used to. Every at-bat is a strikeout attempt of nibbling around the zone or fooling the hitter with disguise. And most teams are willing to dig deep into their bullpens every game with this approach.

If they totally separated the offense from the defense, they would only need 6 batters.

Very interesting, curious what team OBP looks like over the same span using say .300.

More useful to show team batting averages up to May 20 each year, and then for the whole season. Averages usually go up in July and August.