What Happened to Small Ball?

   Small ball is - was - an integral part of baseball for a long time. From its official creation until about 1980, small ball was a way to score runs by strategically putting your team in the best place possible by bunting, stealing bases, and sacrificing. Unfortunately, during the Steroid Era, home runs became more and more common (not the unfortunate part, those dinger-hitting steroid users saved baseball) and it became less practical to utilize small ball. Why bunt? That's wasting what could potentially be an extra run if someone hits a big fly. But now that men aren't more drug than man, small ball should come back, but it doesn't. That is bad, because it means that only have of the guys on a team can produce runs. Look at Dexter Fowler. In the olden days, he would have been a valuable commodity, stealing bases and bunting, with a good average and ten home runs. Nobody has signed him yet, because his individual stats aren't good enough. That's why no one can win right now, because nobody is willing to acknowledge the team player. Bunts and one run at a time (wins) just don't draw fans any more.