Will baseball’s 2023 rules changes finally place a check on pitchers’ decade-plus dominance over batters?
Or will the changes prove as ineffectual as the 2021 crackdown on pitchers using sticky, foreign substances on baseballs?
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Pitchers won fewer Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors after foreign substance crackdown, but still dominated in 2021
Pitchers won fewer Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors after a Major League Baseball sticky-substance rule crackdown in June, but pitchers still dominated in 2021.
Even after the June 21 rules crackdown, pitchers still won the vast majority of Box-Toppers Player of the Game honors. But the rate of their dominance decreased from 65.5 percent prior to the crackdown and 56.5 percent after.
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