Tag: pitch clock
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2024 Baseball Attendance
It was the prevailing theory that the introduction of the pitch clock and other measures to speed up the game resulted in the attendance jump in 2023. That year, attendance increased by more than 6 million fans or 9.6%. It was our thought in this prior post from the end of the 2023 season that…
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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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Pitch Clock Playoffs
In our last post, we pointed out the all-time lowest ratings in this year’s World Series. The disastrous ratings were not just limited to the World Series, since the entire post season was down 8% from 2022. In addition, games across FOX, FS1 and TBS/truTV averaged 3.1 million viewers, which was down from the 3.4…
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Doubling Your Misery: The Ghost Runner and the Pitch Clock
There are two rules that have likely had the greatest impact on shortening the game. The first is the ghost runner and the other is the pitch clock. From a purely anecdotal scanning of opinion pieces and fan reactions throughout the internet, it appears that most fans would scrap the ghost runner, but most favor…
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Neutral Pitch Clock Monitor?
This recent article notes that MLB will be employing neutral pitch clock monitors for the upcoming playoffs. Yes that’s right, neutral pitch clock monitors are actually a thing. The money quote from this article is that, “The league apparently evaluated clock operators from all 30 teams throughout the season and will choose up to the…
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Post Season Pitch clock: End of Debate
1970 Baltimore Orioles World Series Champions
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The Post Season Pitch Clock Debate
There has been an ongoing debate about whether to relax the pitch clock rules when it comes to the post season. We have not even experienced a pitch clock post season, but already there seems to be a division within the baseball hierarchy about whether to change the rules to give more time during the…
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Statistics you Likely Never Heard About nor Care to Hear About
PPTV, CPTV or DSV. Have you ever heard of any of these acronyms? Neither have we. No, they are not new variants of Covid nor are they government agencies. Do not feel bad, we didn’t know what these stood for before we started researching pitch clock related violations. The pitch clock has sprouted a number…
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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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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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