There was a huge brawl in a Mexican Baseball League game earlier this week and I can't believe I'm just learning about it now- because it was absolutely wild and included a hitter throwing his bat ...

More likely to benefit, then, are slap hitters who specialize in singles. But the advantage is more psychological than anything else—a corked bat is essentially a placebo for hitters on the skids.

Sure, the bat changes could lead to an incremental increase in offense across baseball, but at the end of the day, it’s up to the hitters to make good swing decisions and make contact.

The studio wanted to visualize the best World Series hitter of all time. So they turned first to the numbers, digging through the on-base plus slugging (OPS) percentages of every World Series ...