Tag: mlb rule changes
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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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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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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…
Baseball Purist 