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I suspect this may result in more pitches away to these batters so they have to make contact on the narrower end of the bat.

I.e. it's a move that may well have a counter move.

Folks will start to use longer bats then and crowd the plate. Of course that'll be countered with more inside pitching.

>Folks will start to use longer bats then and crowd the plate. (Rule 3.02 states that bats cannot be more than 2.61 inches in diameter and 42 inches in length.) [https://www.mlb.com/news/baseball-bat-history#:~:text=(Rule%...]