> For the first time since 2019, the sport’s collective batting average has risen year over year, improving from .243 last season to .248 heading into Wednesday’s games. The number of errors has fallen to the lowest tally per game in recorded history, 0.51, part of a gradual decline dating back to the 1970s. The league-wide fielding percentage, .986, is also an all-time high.

> “Everything’s a hit,” Angels pitcher Patrick Sandoval said. “I have a little conspiracy about it: That they are telling the scorers to be more lenient with the hits so they can be like, ‘Oh, the new rules work. You have more hits.’”

If you're buying, who do you want to see your team go after?

Hi all, just wanted to start a conversation about filling this community with content.

I've been working hard on the admin side of things the past few weeks, with most of my effort going towards ensuring we have stable and robust servers, as well as migrating the game bot to lemmy.

What we're missing in this community most is the content though. I know a lot of your might just be lurkers but the grand experiment that is lemmy will only work out if we start generating our own content.

That means posting highlights and discussion topics and commenting on threads. Don't be a lurker! At least, not until we generate enough critical mass to have our new sports communities healthy.

We also need mods and content creators who are willing to make their own team's community feel like home, not just the main sports ones.

Finally, I just want to say that I'm open to any and all suggestions to make this community better and more engaging. If you have any ideas (e.g. daily discussion threads, game of the day bot, etc.), post them!