Tied down by tradition for so many years, MLB radically retools to deal with the effects of the analytics revolution.
It’s not going to be your grandparents’ baseball in 2023, or your parents’ baseball, or even the baseball you might have grown up with if you’re of a certain age.rules changes announced by MLB on Friday
This was a game that was essentially unchanged for a century – just consider the fierce disagreement when the American League introduced the designated hitter in 1973 – but is now careening headlong into a new era, with pitch clocks, larger bases, stricter rules about holding runners on base, and limitations on where infielders can be deployed.
Sure, it would be great if hitters learned to go the other way and beat the shift, or maybe bunt occasionally. But they’ve had a decade or so to learn. And if you haven’t actually stood up there with a bat, against a guy throwing 95 mph or harder and able to manipulate the flight of the ball like he’s using a joystick, you probably shouldn’t be suggesting it’s that easy to do in the heat of competition.
What would make a more significant difference: Eliminating the replay challenge when a baserunner is tagged as his foot pops off the bag for a split second while he’s sliding. That is not the spirit of the rule.
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