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Faster Game vs More Injuries
There has been little discussion about what ramifications that a faster pace of games will have on pitchers after implementing the pitch clock, but there is a likelihood that this will increase the rate of injuries. An article below in 2016 notes just that fact. In an interview of Michael Sonne, an ergonomics researcher who…
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Opening Day and Shorter Games
The media is falling over itself and raving about shorter games and how they are going to transform the baseball experience after introducing pitch clocks for the first time on this opening day. What though is actually causing a reduction in attendance levels and is that attributable to the length of the games? Were radical…
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18 Seconds
One of the earlier casualties on MLBs war on interesting baseball was ending the intentional walk as we know it. This ended beginning with the 2017 season. This was the first salvo in MLB’s decision to speed up the game, rules be damned! That rule change eliminated having the pitcher toss four intentional balls, replaced…
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Not Fast Enough!
Baseball games contain approximately 18 minutes of actual action. The rest is made up of tossing the ball back to the pitcher, the time between innings, instant replay challenges, pitching changes, etc. In a previous post (MLB vs Other Leagues) we noted that the average game lasted about three hours and 10 minutes. That means…
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Another Sign of a Dying Game: Soaring Baseball Valuations
Once again, the narrative of baseball depicted as a dying game in need of rule changes is upended as the valuations of MLB teams continues to soar. The link to the Forbes article and full listing of MLB teams valuations below shows that baseball is far from a crisis. You can read the article per…
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A dying game?
The “game is dying” seems to be the basis for the need to change the game and the rules to make it appealing to a larger and younger fan base. For this post, let’s briefly focus on the total revenue numbers from MLB for the past 20 years. As per the table below, except for…
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MLB vs Other Leagues
Polo Grounds
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Welcome to Baseball Purist!
The rule changes put forth by Major League Baseball (MLB) in recent years have prompted us here at Baseball Purist to recall our inner Howard Beale from Network and shout from our keyboards, “I am mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” For the good of the game the commissioner and…
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