Except Nomar Garciaparra. Man I hated watching him at the plate.
honestly just make shorter seasons, baseball should end when preseason football starts
Found this on Google, it's from 4 years ago.Serious question. How does the length of the game today compare to 10 years ago? 20 years ago? And so on.
Pitching on a bullpen mound no one has used versus pitching in a stadium where two other pitchers have hacked it apart for 6 innings each is a lot different. As a catcher you also want to see each guy's stuff for at least a couple pitches in warm ups to figure out if there's a little more tail on the 2 seamer/drop in the sinker/etc.I don't like the idea of a clock, but some pitchers are really slow. For me the bigger annoyance is the batters continuously stepping out of the batters box, and the relievers needing x many pitches before they can pitch to a batter. They just warmed up in the bull pen
Baseball will be longer than it used to be just because you didn't have as many specialists in the past. There wasn't a "gets lefties out" guy in the pen. There wasn't a "this guy is for the 9th inning" pitcher. There wasn't really a "I need a strikeout and this guy is my best shot" guy. Now any good team has all 3 of those + potentially a setup man.Serious question. How does the length of the game today compare to 10 years ago? 20 years ago? And so on.
With the election of a new commish of baseball I've been hearing more and more about the need to speed up the game and to put a clock (or rather, enforce the current clock) on pitchers and batters. I've had many discussions with friends and all have a differing opinion. Best I can tell, those who love baseball and are die hard fans hate the idea, while those who are casual fans or don't like baseball think it should have a clock. I personally don't like the idea. Baseball is great because there is no clock. It's part of the appeal to me. Just wondering what other people think.
or preseason football starts when baseball ends?
I would like to see a time limit between pitches that the batter and pitcher have to follow and/or the number of times a better can step out of the box. It is ridiculous how long it takes between pitches for some players these days.
which, a lot of people don't know, IS timedI compared this to a basketball player having a routine before he shoots a free throw. Except there's so many other variables in baseball. My guess is while they are adjusting all of those things, they are taking those variables into account. Not just fidgeting for fidgeting's sake.
midwest league (cr kernels) does this.There's a Minor league division that splits the season into halves. Winner of the first half automatically makes the post-season playoffs. That would be interesting because it would force coaches to decide whether they should start resting their players or not.
I compared this to a basketball player having a routine before he shoots a free throw. Except there's so many other variables in baseball. My guess is while they are adjusting all of those things, they are taking those variables into account. Not just fidgeting for fidgeting's sake.
The difference is that a basketball player is on a 10 second clock to shoot his free throw once he catches the ball from the official.
The pitcher actually has a clock on him as well, it's just not enforced.