New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

[SPTO]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

So i'm tracking the pace of play for the Jays. (there will be 10 ST games televised here including both Montreal games) The first game went 3:12 IIRC but the actual pace of those 3 hrs was quite good. I don't think the problem with baseball is all on the duration of play but rather how it's paced. The action was pretty constant in the game that I saw and it didn't feel rushed at all. If this at least eliminates some of the dead air that makes you "feel" the time passing by then i'm all for it.

[Blzer]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

I like long games, regardless of the pace. Baseball is baseball. As a hardcore fan, they couldn't slow it up enough.

[Perfect Zero]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

I like long games, regardless of the pace. Baseball is baseball. As a hardcore fan, they couldn't slow it up enough.

You haven't suffered through enough Matt Garza's apparently.

[Mabster]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

You haven't suffered through enough Matt Garza's apparently.

You were suffering through more than just Matt Garza games.

[SPTO]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

Watching the Jays/Pirates game today...The HP umpire didn't bother to even attempt enforcing the "one foot in the box" rule. SMH.

[redsox4evur]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

Watching the Jays/Pirates game today...The HP umpire didn't bother to even attempt enforcing the "one foot in the box" rule. SMH.

I was watching the Red Sox/Mets game and Jerry Remy said that it could be a couple of months before they start enforcing it.

[Majingir]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

May 1st is when they're supposed to officially enforce the rule.


Hopefully the pace does pick up. I don't mind long games if I'm actually in the stadium watching it(games actually go by real fast when you're in the stadium,mostly cause you can see things happening on the field during commercial breaks and stuff) but on TV,it does feel like things drag on alot.

[TheMatrix31]

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Is there a place to see average game lengths by team over seasons?

I feel like Braves games hardly if ever go longer than 2:45. So many times last season (and since I've been a Braves fan, really, given how efficient Braves pitchers have been over the last two decades) I remember games being done in 2:15, 2:20 or so.

This is what pisses me off about this whole thing. If you want a faster game, get efficient pitchers who make it a point to keep things moving. If you want a slower game, by all means, Garza it up. It's up to managers to tell the pitchers and players to move it along. It shouldn't have to be decreed and rules shouldn't have to be implemented changing things and making it all artificial.

[redsox4evur]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

Is there a place to see average game lengths by team over seasons?

I feel like Braves games hardly if ever go longer than 2:45. So many times last season (and since I've been a Braves fan, really, given how efficient Braves pitchers have been over the last two decades) I remember games being done in 2:15, 2:20 or so.

This is what pisses me off about this whole thing. If you want a faster game, get efficient pitchers who make it a point to keep things moving. If you want a slower game, by all means, Garza it up. It's up to managers to tell the pitchers and players to move it along. It shouldn't have to be decreed and rules shouldn't have to be implemented changing things and making it all artificial.

The thing is they have only changed two rules though. And that is the batter keeping one foot in the box and shortening TV commercial breaks. Everything else they are implementing is already an MLB that is not being enforced. Also this has been an issue since at least 2000. The league was pissed that the average time of a game was just under 3 hours. And they made some changes then and it worked until 2007. "To speed the pace of the game, the league mandated such changes as not granting time when batters wanted to step out of the batter's box without a valid reason and demanding that pitchers throw the ball in more rapid succession. Major League Baseball got the results it wanted in ensuing years. The average time of a Major League Baseball game was 2 hours and 54 minutes 2001; 2 hours and 52 minutes in in 2002 and 2 hours and 46 minutes in 2003. The figures remained similar through the 2006 season. However, in 2007, the average length of the game increased to 2 hours and 51 minutes, and it has not been below 2 hours and 50 minutes through the 2010 season."

http://www.livestrong.com/article/412287-the-average-length-of-major-league-baseball-games/

[SPTO]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

Is there a place to see average game lengths by team over seasons?

Not sure, I don't think so however you can go to pro baseball reference and manually tally up the averages for teams though that would take some work.

[TheMatrix31]

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Not sure, I don't think so however you can go to pro baseball reference and manually tally up the averages for teams though that would take some work.

Meh, I don't care that much. I know the Braves pitch relatively efficiently.

[kehlis]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

Is there a place to see average game lengths by team over seasons?

I feel like Braves games hardly if ever go longer than 2:45. So many times last season (and since I've been a Braves fan, really, given how efficient Braves pitchers have been over the last two decades) I remember games being done in 2:15, 2:20 or so.

This is what pisses me off about this whole thing. If you want a faster game, get efficient pitchers who make it a point to keep things moving. If you want a slower game, by all means, Garza it up. It's up to managers to tell the pitchers and players to move it along. It shouldn't have to be decreed and rules shouldn't have to be implemented changing things and making it all artificial.

So spot on.

In college, we had a pitcher that took so long to deliver that it made a tangible difference to our defense.

They hated when he pitched and the results showed it. Normally a manager wouldn't want to meddle with a pitchers routine but he took such an unbearably amount of time between pitches that the defense lost interest in what was going on.

I always worked quick. And never understood why anyone would take as long as they did.

I mean this was 10 years ago so I don't know what the current pace of pitchers looks like in college but there were some that were just unbearable.

[ShowTyme15]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

The umps have been enforcing the rules in a couple of cactus league games. A few days ago the Angels Spring Training game took only 2 hours and 20 minutes to complete. Game started at 1pm was over by 3:20pm.

[kehlis]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

The umps have been enforcing the rules in a couple of cactus league games. A few days ago the Angels Spring Training game took only 2 hours and 20 minutes to complete. Game started at 1pm was over by 3:20pm.

Spring training games have far less mid inning pitching changes and shorter media timeouts so it's not much of a barometer to how the regular season will go.

[ShowTyme15]

Re: New MLB 'pace-of-play' rules established for 2015 season

Spring training games have far less mid inning pitching changes and shorter media timeouts so it's not much of a barometer to how the regular season will go.

I beg to differ on the pitching changes. The Angels make quite a few pitching changes a game (Mid-Inning). Doesn't really matter if it's spring training these rules will still apply during the regular season so how will it be any different? Media timeouts will be shorter during the regular season from what I understand. Really it'll be pitching changes that will slow down the pace.

A lot of the games I've gone too they start the inning before the clock runs out. Went to the Giants/Dodgers game today and in 3 different innings there was 30 seconds or more left on the clock and 1 minute left in another inning.

I guess it's just wait and see.