Re:Opinion: Speeding Up Baseball to Save It
by fred_is_fred on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:28PM
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> Often, in American baseball, you'll only have 2 pitchers for the whole game.
What? I think that in fact the main problem with baseball is that you end up with 4+ pitchers per game, and in fact, science will back me up on this[1]. "In 1964 (four years after the save rule first came to baseball), teams used an average of 2.58 pitchers per game, including the starter; today, they're using 3.92 pitchers per game".
What? I think that in fact the main problem with baseball is that you end up with 4+ pitchers per game, and in fact, science will back me up on this[1]. "In 1964 (four years after the save rule first came to baseball), teams used an average of 2.58 pitchers per game, including the starter; today, they're using 3.92 pitchers per game".
[1] - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-bullpens-took-over-...