[DieHardYankee26]

https://twitter.com/jmeans25/status/...960613892?s=21


Glad we have players coming out and basically saying cheating is worth it with these penalties. Good job Manfred.


Cliff Corcoran in the Athletic on the new 3 batter rule:

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However, while there were 2,162 pitching appearances that lasted fewer than three batters in 2019, 1,471 of them concluded with the end of an inning or the end of the game. That leaves just 691 appearances that the three-batter minimum would have extended, and that’s before searching that sample for outings that ended in injury and thus also would have been exempt from the rule.
Over the course of the 2,429 major-league games played in 2019, those 691 pitching appearances work out to just one every 3 1/2 games. If, in every case, the new rule eliminated the mid-inning pitching change entirely, it would have made the average time of a major-league game in 2019 (drumroll, please) … 34 seconds shorter.
Thirty. Four. Seconds.
After rounding, the rule would have reduced the average time of game from a record of 3:10 to a record of 3:09.