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[Jeff Passan] Bottom of the ninth. Tie game. Bases loaded. Full count. The dream scenario. And … Cal Conley didn’t get set in the batter’s box with 8 seconds left on the pitch clock. Umpire calls an automatic strike. At-bat over. Inning over. This is the new reality.
Bottom of the ninth. Tie game. Bases loaded. Full count. The dream scenario. And … Cal Conley didn't get set in the batter's box with 8 seconds left on the pitch clock.
Umpire calls an automatic strike. At-bat over. Inning over. This is the new reality. pic.twitter.com/Bv5k2xJ06j
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) February 25, 2023
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Great. This is what happens when you try to delay a game.
I don’t mind the rule but once the umps become lax, or genuinely miss the call, people will implode. Imagine this in a real game and it NOT being called. The pitching team is gonna go bananas.
Why’s this idiot running to first base on an 0-2 count anyway? Was probably standing outside the box playing with his gloves for 15 seconds. I’m happy.
Learn to adapt or keep losing. I don’t see an issue here.
I’d change it a little bit – batter has to be in the box, not set.
if the pitcher throws and they’re not ready? too bad
I worked in AAA baseball the last couple of summers.
In 2021, our average game was 3:05.
In 2022, our average game was 2:35.
The pitch clock will save MLB the same way the shot clock saved the NBA.
Batters need to stop jerking off after every pitch. You have your assignments and signals. Jerking off every pitch doesn’t do anything.
Good. Maybe I can actually watch a whole game. MLB really needs to adapt and this a great change.
Deal with it. You earn, at worst, hundreds of thousands. Probably millions.
Why didn’t they just not allow batters to step out and redo their gloves after every fucking pitch?
Get set quicker then, dummy.
I’m not a huge baseball fan, especially televised, but I think I might be one of the people on the fence enough to start watching more with pace of play adjustments. That said, I don’t think anyone watching is upset about the pace of play when the game is on the line for a single pitch. I’d absolutely prefer it if they were permitted more time under certain circumstances, such as a game tying run (or better) at bat with a full count. Those are some of the situations that baseball has over other sports, and that particular moment shouldn’t be taken away.
Thank god all this happening in spring training. The teams will adapt and hopefully by regular season these infractions will be less and less
“We created rules to prevent pointless delays, and now there are consequences for pointless delays???”
I get it, but I LOVED the pace of play today. It’s a good change and through time there will be adjustments made by players, umpires, and the rules committee. Baseball needed this to keep the younger generation interested.
Why on earth should the umps have more authority? They already eject players because of their own inability to take criticism. We need the MLB version of a technical foul
Ah yes the dream scenario…of spring training.
This will lead to higher concession prices. 30 minutes less per game, 81 home games per season. That’s 40 hours of lost sales time. It’s not like the companies are going to lower the prices to draw more business. Nope. Gonna raise the margins.
Good. People have been talking about this for years. Certain minor leagues have been doing this for a couple of seasons, explicitly as a testing ground so MLB can do it later. The new rules were agreed to months ago. Now it’s spring training and players can experience the new system in games that don’t matter. The system didn’t fuck up; the batter did. And he’ll learn not to do that again by the time games matter.
There are many reasons for the declining viewership in baseball in the US. One of the biggest culprits is that it’s the worst sport for action-per-minute in an era of low attention spans and entertainment options. Game times have been going up year after year, and getting rid of these way-too-long standoffs of zero action between pitcher and batter will help alleviate that. The minor leagues that implemented these timers saw a 25 minute reduction in game time. That’s 25 while fucking minutes of waiting around for a hitter and pitcher to stroll around before actually getting ready.
About fucking time.
Cannot wait to hear Jomboy on this one.
Dream scenario would be down by 3. Tweet is conflating 2 scenarios.
Something something Ángel Hernández