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Originally Posted by jdawgsenior
Yeah, no one's getting any of the triples records until and unless baseball's parks all move their fences back by significant distances.
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And the outfielders will have to get slower and much less athletic. There are places like PETCO and Comerica with deep alleys and center fields, but it's still a crazy feat to hit 20 triples. Outfielders are better.
Many of these untouchable records are that way because today's conditions make them so. But we don't know how baseball will change in the next 20 or 50 years. Fifty years ago 60 homers was untouchable. The strikeout record was 3509. Now they're 73 and 5000-and-something.
By 2050 there will be some records that look goofy today. Like somebody will win 57 games in a season. Or somebody will hit .445. Or strikeout 487 batters. Or go a whole season without striking out. Something like that.