Ahead of the 2023 Major League Baseball season, a pitch clock was introduced to speed up the pace of the game. As a result, an average game during the 2024 MLB season lasted 2 hours and 36 minutes. This was more than 25 minutes shorter than an average game during the 2022 season, whe...
The 2022 MLB playoffs have now delivered two of the longest playoff baseball games ever. Game 3 of the American League Division Series between the Houston Astros vs Seattle Mariners went 15 consecutive innings without a single run being scored. During that 15-inning stretch, the Astros and Mari...
Boosted bynew rulesdesigned to speed play and increase action, stolen bases rose 40% to their highest level in nearly a quarter-century and scoring increased by 1.1 runs per game. Pitch clock violations averaged 0.74, and the New York Mets topped the major leagues with 17 while the Los A...
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball’s new rules designed to speed pace of play and encourage more action seem to be working through the first 1 1/2 weeks of the season. Batting average is up 16 points, stolen bases have spiked 30% and the average game time is down 31 minutes...
How much exit velocity was obtained compared to the maximum possible exit velocity available, given the speed of the swing and pitch. Blasts A more valuable subset of squared-up balls, defining batted balls that were both squared-up and with a fast swing. Swords A bat tracking metric ...
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Expected Weighted On-base Average (xwOBA) is formulated using exit velocity, launch angle and, on certain types of batted balls, Sprint Speed. In the same way that each batted ball is assigned an expected batting average, every batted ball is given a single, double, triple and home run pr...
Quicker games drew more fans to the ballpark in 2023…Almost certainly, the biggest influence on the attendance increase was the shortening of game times, followingrule changes designed to speed up games(most notably, a 15-second pitch clock). In 2023, games finished 24 minutes faster, compared...
Professional development can come outside of your immediate field. The two main reasons I went to Pitch-a-Palooza were to make connections and be exposed to different coaching philosophies. The baseball world is very small, so going to an event like this is worth its weight in gold for netw...
-0.01 (throw speed) -0.02 (exchange) -0.04 (accuracy) +0.90 (teamwork) Ninety percent! On this play, at least, 90% of the caught-stealing credit here should be assigned to the fielder, Báez, who made “a stupendous no-look tag,” as theMLB.com storyfrom that day said, and it wa...