How the relentless drive for optimization made baseball impossible to watch
Hacker News
APRIL 1, 2023
Schwarber — who has the rough physical dimensions of a human keg of beer — is best known for hitting the baseball really, really far when he hits it. He’s HAL from 2001 in custom Home Run Derby cleats. Along with those 52 home runs, he walked 101 times and struck out a truly mind-boggling 218 times. At first glance, not much.
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