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Major League Baseball has seen numerous changes in recent years to which many fans, and even players, have had to get used.
From tone timers to larger bases, from limiting mound visits to potentially automated balls and strikes, the game is a different product than it was even in pre-pondemic days.
However, perhaps the greatest change is that the average duration of a game has been shortened in more than half an hour.
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The heading of the Cardinals of the San Luis, Adam Wainwright (50), delivers a launch during a game against the Milwaukee brewers on September 14, 2022 at the Busch stadium in St. Louis. (Rick Ulreich/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
That statistic reached its peak when the average game of nine tickets lasted three hours, 10 minutes. MLB implemented a launch timer in 2023, and that number was shortened at 2:39. The following year, another three minutes were saved, but two of them have been returned this year.
Adam Wainwright of former St. Louis Cardinals launched in the mid -2000s and retired after the first year of the implementation of the launch clock, and when his career reached nine, he began to notice how long they were taking games.
“He turned too much, probably,” Wainwright admitted in a recent interview with Pak Gazette Digital.
Wainwright does not miss the long games, saying: “The length of the game is now perfect.” But there is one thing that strands about the old days.
“I miss the days when it is the lower part of the ninth, they are the playoffs, there is so much drama, a pitcher can happen and be able to think about what he will launch below and build the drama even more. And then you are sitting there looking and you are like, ‘What will happen?’ I miss that, “Wainwright said.
The titular launcher of the Cardinals of the San Luis, Adam Wainwright, reacts after Trea Turner of Los Angeles Dodgers motivates a double play during the third entry of a playoff game of the Wild-Card National League on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sánchez)
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“From another point of view, I miss the fact that a pitcher for the third time through the order, has time to go, ‘Do you know what? Very well, the first time, I took it out with fast balls, the next time I took it with changes in the changes and inside, now I should be open. But I see him dying towards the plate. Maybe he is waiting for something. Maybe I stuck it. You look at the receiver, you have eight seconds for that moment.
Wainwright also saw the total analysis review that was implemented in the game, but even an intelligent veteran like him received a lot of information.
“And in many ways, that was good. There is so much information that a pitcher needs. There is a happy medium where the analysis and old school find that it is probably the perfect optimal point. I appreciate the slow chamber that shows exactly why the turn was better in this certain tone. I appreciate that and the ability to return and say ‘ok, I have to make sure that my hand is in this angle through the launch spear. hit?
But, like everyone else, there are some moments when Analytics is too much, including a time when Wainwright said he was lucky after taking Freddie Freeman.
“I took it out in a terrible backup cutter who was trying to attack under his hands. I threw it up and far, and he uploaded it to the second base. And so, Analytics returned and said: ‘Look, if you go back that cutter up and far, the analytical side says it is a good release for you.’ And that is not something that a pitcher will try to replicate it.
The Cardinals of the San Luis, Adam Wainwright, works against the Atlanta Braves during the first entrance of the opening game of a double head on Saturday, June 19, 2021 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
“There are things that report in the information, you assimilate everything, and then you must say: ‘Ok, I understand you, but that is a computer, it does not understand the human side of things. I don’t want to try to throw that launch again. That was totally lucky, and if I launch it again, it would be a disaster.’ ‘ based on that. “
Regarding the changes in the rule, they seem to have brought fans, since the average assistance is scheduled to exceed 29,000 per game for the third consecutive year, the first section since before 2017. It should also be taken into account that two teams, athletics and rays of Tampa Bay, are playing in the smaller leagues this year, limiting assistance for 162 games.
Each of the last two seasons was the first time since 2011 and 2012 that assistance increased in consecutive seasons.
