Baseball

When it comes to strikeout as a pitcher -- you can generally expect a few things will be true.

1. No one pitching today will ever put up the kinds of totals that guys in the past did. They pitch too few games, have innings an pitch count limits. You will not see the kind of durability stats and totals that you once did. Bronson Arroyo (a middle of the road pitcher had 8 200 inning seasons and another 199).
2. Pitchers today will absolutely dominate in strikeouts per inning statistics over the pitchers of the past becasue it is acceptable to have strikeout rates that were unthinkable even 20 years ago. Last year, 47% of ALL QUALIFIED HITTERS struck out at least 20% of the time.
In the 1990s that number ranged from 5-6%. From 2000-2009 it was 4-5% with an overall K rate of about 16-17%. Now it is over 24%

I watch less and less baseball these days because I get sick of watching strikeout after strikeout with no one trying to put the ball in play.