Some of the innovations listed above have more merits than others What bothers me to no end is way the game has changed through metrics. For many years now it's about launch velocity spin and crunching numbers. Do they hit fungoes anymore? Every pitch and outcome is charted by statcast and players are trained to do best they can with the most common outcomes on their chart If you don't like extra innings isn't the way relief pitchers are trained and used partly responsible for that change? Who would pitch the 12,13,14th inning anyway? 35-40 percent strikeout rates are almost the norm now, that's offensive The may train and play robots one day at this rate The game will never go back but much has been lost