Marlins Manager Don Mattingly Admits That Baseball Is ‘Sometimes Unwatchable’

Count Marlins manager Don Mattingly among the people in and around baseball who think that the game needs drastic changes to become more appealing to fans.

After Yankees pitcher Corey Kluber tossed the sixth no-hitter of the 2021 season, Mattingly opened up about the games’ need for something to change.

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“It’s great for your team when a guy throws a no-no, it’s great for that guy. It’s a great accomplishment,” Mattingly told reporters via The Athletic. “But when there’s so many, so early — you know, strikeouts are at an all-time high — it tells you there are some issues within the game that need to be addressed.

“… It’s been coming and it’s been building, and now we’re at a point where I think it’s getting so much more attention because it’s just a game that sometimes is unwatchable. You see guys you talk to and they don’t even like watching games because there’s nothing that goes on in them.”

Had to grab this and post from yesterday’s pre game. Marlins Manager Don Mattingly on all of the no-hitters being thrown. Candid. pic.twitter.com/TFo8Um04pf

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Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw even admitted that all these no-hitters aren’t good for the overall growth of the game.

“No-hitters are cool,” he said. “I have all the respect in the world for Corey Kluber and Bum and all those guys that have thrown no-hitters. But to have one happen every night, it seems like it’s probably not good for the game. Fans want to see some hits, I get that and some action, and not many people striking out.

“I appreciate the attempt that MLB has tried to do, but I think it seems like they missed the mark so far. We’ll see. I don’t know.”

While most people in the MLB seem to agree that the rules probably need to be tweaked a little bit to make for more excitement during games, Mattingly isn’t very confident that things will change quickly.

“Because this started 15, 16 years ago with the swing changes and the philosophy changes and the analytics,” he said.

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