How bad has MLB hitting gotten?

[JonathanW]

There is currently only 1 career .300 hitter (Altuve at .306)
There are only 7 career .290+ hitters (none have <10 years)
There are just 28 career .280+ hitters (less than 1 per team)
There are 50 career .270+ hitters (1.5 per team)


These are all with a minimum of 3000 PA's which can be achieved in as little as 5, even 4.5 years.

 

[NociHTTP]

Some of it is that starting pitchers have become pussiefied. They seemingly rarely ever go beyond 5-6 innings now. And they're out forever with a hangnail. The pitchers of olden days sucked it up and got out there. Teams throw one relief pitcher after another out there, which has helped to drop batting averages.

EDIT: I think getting rid of the on-field shift was supposed to help produce more hits, but how often do guys spray the entire field?