MLB official: “Just as Opening Day was jarring for people, I think Tuesday will also be kind of jarring.”
added a new wrinkle to his postseason preparation last week. The adjustment stemmed from his experience with the deliberate pace of October baseball and his recognition of baseball’s new rules in 2023. So Kimbrel, the nine-time All-Star reliever for the“I made a point in my last outing to try to speed my tempo up a little bit,” Kimbrel said this past weekend, adding, “I’m going to try to nip that in the bud, before it becomes a problem.
Sword said the implementation of the rules had “gone as well as we could have possibly hoped,” crediting players, umpires and staffers for conforming to the new paradigm. The average time of game decreased by 24 minutes. There were more hits and stolen bases. But all of those changes occurred amid the languid months of spring and summer.
“So there is room, without changing anything, for the game to slow down a little bit and breathe, if the players want that,” Sword said. Acuña, who was already an annual All-Star, flourished with the changes. The greater burden fell upon pitchers. Those 15 and 20-second intervals became more challenging to abide as their arms grew weary later in the season, some pitchers said. “At the end of the year, you feel a little more tired,”said. “And in between pitches, you’re not catching your breath as good as you were in July or June. Yeah, the pitch clock got faster. But it was still manageable.
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