Tag: baseball
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Ugh! More Changes to the Game Contemplated
Evidently, the extreme measures of adding a pitch clock, assigning a designated runner to extra innings and limiting the number of throws to first base, among other rule changes, were not enough for the MLB hierarchy. MLB based all of those recent changes on the premise that the game was too slow for the average…
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All Star Game Uniforms: Still Bland, Still Horrible
As we have written in the past, MLB seems insistent on having their finest players now wear the same custom-made uniforms for each and every all-star game. This year’s uniforms continued the trend of uniformity by trotting out the bland and boring in all-star wear once again. Not surprisingly, the fans are still not pleased…
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What Are We Supposed to be Watching?
On June 7th, in a game against the New York Yankees, Kike Hernandez of the Los Angeles Dodgers committed an error on a ground ball hit by Gleyber Torres. Then on June 28th, shortstop Jeremy Pena of the Houston Astros allowed a pop fly off the bat of Jeff McNeil of the New York Mets…
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Attendance Check In
We posted about the year over year (2022 vs 2023) attendance increase in our post, titled Mind Bending Attendance Logic from this past October. As a quick reminder, we noted in that post that MLB was celebrating the 6.2 million increase in fans from the prior year and attributing the increase to the implementation of…
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Pitching Injuries: We Kind of Told you So
Another baseball season has begun and the main topic of discussion has been the rise in pitching injuries. Notable pitchers falling to injury so far this year include: These are just the most notable pitchers but on opening day, there were 132 on the injured list (IL). In total, there were 166 players on the…
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How Not to Start a Season
Only in the world of Major League Baseball, can you start a season, take a break and then start it again almost ten days later. Here is the timeline of the start of this year’s season: It is funny how MLB markets March 28th, since they call it Opening Day, even though the first regular…
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Strike Two on MLB Uniforms
As we noted this past summer, MLB chose a less than inspiring line of uniforms for its last All-Star game. Evidently, MLB did not learn from those fashion reviews, since they have now followed that up with see-through uniforms that have both the players and the Players Association up in arms over the new duds.…
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Brazilians and Baseball?
When one thinks of Brazil, you did not think of baseball. Of course, the one and only sport for the vast majority of Brazilians is football (soccer for us Americans). Baseball on the other hand is not even a thought for many Brazilians, except for a small minority of the population. Despite the lack of…
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The Poor Get Poorer
As we noted previously, MLB’s greatest greatest problem is the fact that there is a distinct gap between the rich and poor teams. If you are a fan of teams like the Mets, Yankees or Dodgers, you do not have to live with the fear that your club will have to jettison their most talented…
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So Little Time
MLB was not satisfied with the original pitch clock rule changes they instituted prior to the 2023 season that shortened games a “whopping” 24 minutes from 2022 levels. As outraged as we were here at BP that MLB decided to implement a timer to the game of baseball that previously never had been on a…
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MLB Salaries and the Other Leagues: Yes There is a Difference!
As we noted in our last post (Rich vs Poor), there is a large chasm between the wealthiest and the poorest clubs in the MLB landscape. We wondered whether this difference between the haves and the have nots was also true in the other sports. In the table below we compare MLB with the other…
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Rich vs Poor
The Los Angeles Dodgers have made the biggest splash this off-season of all the major league clubs by signing Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Combined, the Dodgers shelled out over $1 billion to obtain Ohtani ($700 million over 10 years) and Yamamoto ($325 million over 12 years). Ohtani’s contract is the largest in sport’s history…
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