Tag: mlb rule changes
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The Baseball Attendance Myth
“Statistics do not lie but liars use statistics” Major League Baseball has continued to promote that it is back and better than ever, mostly by stating that rules changes employed in 2022 have helped to increase attendance at ballparks. Those rule changes included the implementation of the pitch clock, extra inning ghost runner, and the limitation…
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Stolen Bases*
The number of stolen bases in baseball has fluctuated greatly over time. Some of those periods and the causes of those fluctuations include: The latest change in stolen base activity occurred with the introduction of analytics into the game in the early 2000’s. Prior to that, in the 1990’s there were regularly more than 3,000 successful…
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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…