Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced even more changes are coming to baseball next season that aim to speed up gameplay and keep fans interested in America's favorite pastime. The new rules build offnotable changes to the game that were introduced last year, including a pitch clock, whi...
A pitch timer, limits on defensive shifts and bigger bases are coming to Major League Baseball in 2023. Following recent experiments in the Minor Leagues, the recently formed Joint Competition Committee voted Friday in favor of three rule changes aimed at improving pace of play, action and safety...
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Baseball's well-received round of rule changes in 2023 aimed to bring the stolen base back to prominence. It has, and then some. The last three seasons have seen the three lowest caught stealing rates in history; approximately eight of every 10 steal attempts are successful. The rate of.....
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The primary goal of the changes, as reportedly outlined in the memo, was to make the performance of the ball more consistent from batch to batch and season to season. That makes sense, but it also makes sense that baseball would want the revised specifications to st...
MLB Uses Atlantic League to Test More Rule Changes More Charlie Riedel Kansas City Royals' Nate Eaton waits for the pitch by Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Sonny Gray as the pitch clock counts down during the fourth inning of a baseball game Saturday, April 1, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. ...
As discussed, expected starting pitchers have a huge impact on the over/under, as do changes to the batting lineup and who’s playing defence. However, other factors also influence where the total will be set, and how the line will move before first pitch. ...
The Opening Day. Opening day has been scheduled for March 31. Upon announcing the opening MLB schedule, talks of significant changes rushed in instantly. But to set the context, it is essential to present the 2021 MLB season-opening amidst the pandemic. To sum up the whole experience, things...
to an archived game. This season, however, MLB archived audio consistently cuts away from the announcers between innings/changes into generic repeating ads that last 4 to 5 1/2 minutes, which is longer than ad break if I were listening in real time. The average length of game is 2h 41m...