A wildly successful World Baseball Classic meets an aggressive slate of rule changes. Does the sport finally have momentum?
Pitchers and hitters will both be on an explicit play clock for the first time: Pitchers will get 15 seconds to throw the ball when the bases are empty, and 20 seconds when a runner is aboard. Hitters will need to be in the batter’s box with eight seconds on the clock, ready to hit. A violation by the pitcher results in a charged ball, while a lollygagging hitter gets a charged strike. The defensive shift, with three infielders on one side of second base, is now illegal. The bases are bigger.
them. The pitch clock will reframe every at-bat. The bigger bases will always be there. The end of the shift will change a game of cat-and-mouse that in recent years was absorbing a huge percentage of plate appearances.Beginning with the biggest shake-up: the pitch clock and related hitter clock. The league brought them to major league spring training over the past month, following prior testing in the minor leagues.
, clock violations declined by half over the first three weeks of spring training, from about two per game to about one.The league says spring training games have gone from taking an average of 3 hours and 1 minute in 2022 to about 2 hours and 36 minutes in 2023. This is, of course, the league’s real goal, and it’s a virtuous one. Three-hour games are not always a problem, but the trouble with a three-hourgame is that it means a whole lot of games are taking much longer than that.
. And the pitch clock isn’t just about appealing to new fans. It’s about keeping things moving for existing fans too.The ban of the shift won’t transform every play like the pitch clock will, but it will change about one-third of total at-bats and more than half of those by left-handed hitters,.
without nuking the availability of either team’s pitching staff for the next week. Worse things have happened than an occasional runner on second.The ghost runner and the pitch clock in particular have gotten a lot of early flak. That’s in part because baseball has many old-timey fans who abhor change. But it’s also because of where the changes are coming from: Manfred and the league office.
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