Catching

[DawgFromOxford]

And yet another reason why the pitch clock isn't slowing the game down any. I think it's the exact opposite. You take the increased stealing and a tighter strike zone into account I could see the games being longer, not shorter. I'd like to see some stats.......

I don't know if it translates the same to the college level but at least in the minor league and spring training it's working really well at speeding up the games.

"Over the first weekend of spring training games, the average game time was 2:38. That’s down 23 minutes from last year’s spring training average. When pitch clocks were tested in the minors last year, the average game time dropped by 25 minutes," https://espnswfl.com/2023/02/27/base...-games-faster/

[Randolph Dupree]

I don't know if it translates the same to the college level but at least in the minor league and spring training it's working really well at speeding up the games.

"Over the first weekend of spring training games, the average game time was 2:38. That?s down 23 minutes from last year?s spring training average. When pitch clocks were tested in the minors last year, the average game time dropped by 25 minutes," https://espnswfl.com/2023/02/27/base...-games-faster/

I hate the pitch clock, BUT don't disagree that there is a lot of time wasted while guys step out of the box and readjust everything for every pitch. There has to be a better way to regulate that than a pitch clock though. One thing that chaps me though is that we can watch football for 3 hours and nobody has an issue but a 3 hour baseball game is too long? MLB wants to get more eyes on baseball? End the stupid blackout and make more games accessible to people ($$).



Really great thread!