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Not really. I don’t care about the owners per se. I just have always been a baseball fan, and I see the league (MLB) is starting to struggle, and I am nostalgic enough that I don’t like that. In order to be relevant in the future, the league has to improve the product and evolve and stay interesting. So my interest in the league and the owners real financial interest in the league are in alignment.
I think that there needs to be more action, more scoring, less dead time, and more balls put into play.
I think that there needs to be more action, more scoring, less dead time, and more balls put into play.
I think this last point is being completed skipped over by Manfred and Co. One of the main reasons the game felt slow is because it was a 3 hr strikeout fest with a homer or 2 mixed in. The game definitely feels like it is moving faster but are we seeing more action?
The BABIP is up 11 points this year, this translates to roughly one more hit a game. Not exactly action packed in my books. The underlying problem of pitchers being so good with spin, analytics etc. has not been addressed.
End of Rant
I’m a huge fan of the pitch clock. Pace feels much better and will be easier to catch 7p games without getting home past 11 or ducking out in the 8th inning. Has felt more action packed to me but maybe that’s just due to the White Sox hitting well through 4 games.
Not today. Being shut out. Kopech gave up 5 bombs, 4 in one inning.
At least our bullpen finally… ok scratch that
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All in all a day to forget and move on if you’re a White Sox fan.
Sounds like the 2022 motto
We need shittier pitchers! Yes, that will make the game great again.
And, we need stupider back offices! Fire the nerds who never played the game! Only ex-players with zero college (and/or hardly a high school) education need apply! Sign those players with high butts and only ones with pretty girlfriends!
Oh, and let the cheating Trash-tros keep cheating! That’s the REAL Baseball we all crave!
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I am not anti-analytics, I was saying that pitcher are so much more effective with analytics than they used to be allowing a pitcher that might have been average in the 80s to be a strikeout machine in today’s game.
If I was commish I would limit the amount of times that players that can be sent up and down to/from the minors forcing teams to train pitchers to throw multiple innings and shift some of the balance back to the hitters.
Not sure how analytics plays into this. Unless you are referring to how batters approach their plate appearances and swing for the fences or K trying.
Or, are analytics used in pitch choices and strike zone spots for each batter and umpire tendencies? Or how quickly they are pulled at the first sign of trouble (or lowered confidence) based on data that show a pitcher will give up more runs after the first one (if that’s a thing – I think it’s more about manager’s and GM’s confidence dropping)?
They did limit the number of times a player can be optioned in the most recent CBA
Some teams have used analytics to change pitchers mix of pitches to use their more effective ones more often.
I’m not sure if that’s what he means.
I’m sure video training with respect to both hitters and pitchers have improved quite a bit from the 70s in helping players refine craft.
And I mean analytics of player spray charts “back in the day” was a guy named bill with a pencil and notebook jotting down where guys hit the ball. Now a computer can tell you the type of hit, velocity, direction, and launch angle of a players last 1000 ABs or whatever. Kind of helps in positioning your players.
Or they could just bring back steroids.
Steroids reduced baseball to the homer/BB/K game.
i wanted to be that guy
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Yes, this is what I meant. Thank you for being a better wordsmith than I am.
Sox games would be 4 hours + without the clock. This is historically bad pitching.
Nothing like Detroit to make them look good.
Jomboy had a great breakdown of Michael Kopech tipping his pitches in that blowout. Love me some Jomboy.
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