Imagine that MLB’s batting average is at an all-time low. Imagine that there are concerns about the rise of the strikeout, about the entertainment value of the game, about the balance of power between pitching and hitting. And imagine one key thing—imagine that this is not actually about baseball right now in 2021, but about baseball the last time it looked like this, in 1968.
Imagine that people are starting to see this offensive environment as a problem. What do you call it?
This may not seem like such an important question—solving the problem, after all, tends to be much bigger than simply naming it.