The problem with hitting in MLB has nothing to do with pitch doctoring (which has been going on since the beginning of baseball, and was far worse in the 1970s

The problem with hitting in MLB has nothing to do with pitch doctoring (which has been going on since the beginning of baseball, and was far worse in the 1970s and 1980s than it is today). It's because the batters are obsessed with launch angles, hit velocity and home runs. Hits per game has been dropping for 13-14 years now, as the culture in baseball has shifted toward swinging for home runs at all costs. Naturally strikeouts per game are up accordingly as batters go for broke. That's why hits are down but home runs are not. Home runs are still at steroid era peak levels, just like they have been for years now. This fact is intentionally being ignored in the discussion about pitch doctoring supposedly being the big cause of why batters suck at hitting now. They also need a convenient scapegoat for the new baseball MLB introduced this year and the way it has benefited pitchers more than hitters. They're trying to turn MLB into the NBA. The NBA no longer plays defense, they stand around chucking three pointers; it has become the WWE of basketball, it's a joke league (and ratings keep plunging properly, because it's not fun to watch all-star game scoring where nobody plays defense). MLB now openly advocates in favor of changing the game to juice ratings and scoring artificially (by eg restricting the ability to play defense, among other things). They allowed the steroid era to happen in the pursuit of ratings, they're going to screw the game up all over again.