Baseball this year is — as you might've heard — quicker. Whether you think it's a gross corruption of the unfettered escapism inherent in a summer afternoon spent at the ballpark or the better-late-than-never savior of a sport that has been slowing down in an era of shortened attention spans, the pitch timer is upon us. It's the simplest and most dramatic in a slate of rule changes that went into effect starting in spring training after years of being workshopped in the minors.
Experts, aficionados and anyone trying to convince naysayers that the point is not thatwill clarify that the problem was not primarily length of games so much as pace of play. Pedants will quibble that calling it a"pitch clock" ignores the fact thatAll of that is true. And frankly, so are reports and instances of praise that focus solely on the minutes shaved off the total time — not for nothing, the opportunity to get home by 10 p.m.
Drawing attention to it didn’t fix anything, of course. The 2022 season ended with the lowest league-wide batting average since 1968, the Year of the Pitcher — even though 2022 was the first year of the universal designated hitter and the year after the league cracked down on sticky stuff in an effort to curtail pitchers’ runaway dominance in what had been widely dubbed the Year of the Pitcher, Part 2.
That problem, already baked into the structure of the sport, was seemingly only exacerbated by the analytical and technological arms race happening behind the scenes of every organization.“I'm skeptical that it will,” Baltimore Orioles general manager Mike Elias said when posed the same question about hitting catching up. “Hitting is more complicated because there's obviously a physical swing element, but there's also a timing element or bat speed element.
That inequity and the realization that he’s fighting an uphill battle in trying to prepare batters for increasingly nasty stuff doesn’t frustrate Barnes. “It’s what we signed up for,” he said. . Through the first week of games last year, there were 0.7 stolen bases per game , with a 68.5% success rate. So far this season, the rate of stolen bases is up to 1.36 per game, with a success rate above 80% — which, if it holds, would be the highest in more than 100 years.
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