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In an individual at bat with no one on how far you hit it does matter... it can be worth 0 or 1. A player can also choose a more difficult play... trying to hit a home run or just slapping a single. So they can choose the risk/reward of the harder play.The number of points you get in baseball has nothing to do with how far you hit it. It has to do with the number of people on bases. You can get 1 run by knocking it out of the park or 3 runs by hitting a line drive.
The home run is as much a gimmick as the three pointer. Everyone is swinging for the fences now... so boring and dumb!
Basketball is fundamentally different than many other sports... why does this one weird thing become gimmicky because it does not have an exact match in another sport?