"Fans leave at this rate." League OPS returns to 0.627, 70 years ago in baseball

The value of one point is more valuable than ever in Japanese pro baseball this year. The Central League, which does not have a designated hitter system, has an overall OPS of only 0.627. The situation is not much different in the Pacific League, where designated hitters are located, with an OPS of 0.636. Batters are agonizing over their performance as they do not get too many scores, and pitchers are not properly recognized for their actual capabilities. As it became difficult to reverse the game even if only two to three points were taken, fans had less reason to watch the game to the end.

Japanese sports magazine "Number" highlighted the phenomenon of pitching hitters beyond the "Never Flying Ball Era" under the title "Professional baseball abnormalities, home runs are disappearing" on the 15th.

This year, the Japanese pro baseball has a home run pace of about 840, which is smaller than 939 in 2011 and 881 in 2012. There are only three hitters out of the 12 hitters in total. Only four players have recorded double-digit home runs: Murakami Munetaka (14 homers in 62 games) and hotaka Yamakawa (12 homers in 60 games), Kazuma Okamoto (10 homers in 64 games) and Santana Domingo (10 in 62 games).

The OPS in the league was 0.642 in the Central League and 0.656 in the Pacific League in 2011, but it fell to 0.627 in the Central League and 0.636 in the Pacific League this year. The OPS is lower than that in the 1950s, compared to the era of "flying ball games."

"It's hard to explain with a pitcher's level up," said Hiroshi Miyashita, an analyst at Japanese baseball statistics firm DELTA. "The fact that the OPS is in the 0.600 range means extreme pitching and batting in professional baseball. Many fans get bored when there are more games in which no score is made."

"As Miyashita pointed out, one of the harmful effects of extreme pitching is that fans lose the pleasure of watching games. A case in point is the decrease in scores and home runs. Tense pitching is good, but when you wake up every day, it becomes a monotonous game without moving," he added. "Now that Japanese pro baseball has a longer playing time and no score than Major League Baseball, can be said to be attractive as content. Do you have any sense of urgency to choose from a variety of entertainment?" he said.

He also added, "Baseball, which maintains the best number of spectators and viewers in Japan, is the best in the sports world, but if the image of boredom solidifies, it cannot be asserted that its popularity will not plunge."

The Japanese pro baseball team changed the standard for the rebound coefficient of official ball to 0.4134, which had been at the upper and lower limits after experiencing a "flying ball scandal." The NPB said there was no problem with the test results of the rebound coefficient of official ball. Miyashita said, "Air resistance changes based on minute differences," adding, "It could have been influenced by drag coefficient, not rebound coefficient." 토토사이트넷

"Whether or not the ball has changed is not an essential issue. The league needs to take adjustments to prevent it from becoming an extreme environment for any reason," he said.