re: If baseball had the old bats would we be playing Gorilla Ball?

Yep, and the funny thing is a good deal of guys on this team are not really power hitters. We've gone for more speed/contact than pure power guys.

Bregman, Jones, Moore and Katz are the only guys who I would say have a great deal of power

Laird, Sciambra, Ibarra, Ross, Foster, Yocum, Edward, McMullen and Stevenson aren't really take it out of the yard guys. I left out Barash and Chinea because I haven't really seen enough from them, but Chinea I think with his body could develop more power than say Ross who never developed big time power despite a big body.