Tag: major-league-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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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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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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