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The baseballs weren’t juiced during a record-setting 2019 regular season, according to a study commissioned by Major League Baseball. They were just flying farther.
On Wednesday, Major League Baseball released the results of its report regarding whether baseballs were "juiced" during recent MLB seasons.The league's study came following allegations that MLB ...
People — baseball players included — cannot be expected to change behavior without structure and constraints, and the clock provides exactly that. 3. Steals will go up.
Baseballs with a lower seam height coupled with a ‘change in player behavior’ were among the primary causes of the power surge that resulted in players hitting a record 6,776 home runs in 2019 ...
Something’s up with the baseball. Again. Deep flies aren’t flying as far this year in Major League Baseball, and the league office is acknowledging as much. A review by The Athletic of MLB’s ...
Image credit: Jeff McNeil (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) Through the first five weeks of the regular season, Major League Baseball’s rules changes are working exactly as hoped. Game times ...
Because pitching velocity is suffocating offense, MLB could move the pitcher’s mound back a foot (from today’s 60 feet six inches) to give batters more reaction time. The changed physiology of ...
Officials from Major League Baseball and its 30 teams are expected to discuss potential stadium policy changes meant to curb unruly fan behavior, days after fans purportedly directed racist ...
By now, this sort of seismic injury should come as no surprise. Baseball has been ravaged by an epidemic of arm injuries for more than a decade, and there is no sign of the problem slowing down.
The reduction in the pitch clock from 20 to 18 seconds with runners on base is the most significant proposal Major League Baseball’s joint competition committee is considering, but not the only ...
Right now, at current warming levels, global warming’s overall impact on MLB play is tiny, compared with other factors like day-to-day variation in weather, the baseball itself, and player behavior.
MLB in the report said it interviewed “over 200 matter experts, ... It’s the conundrum baseball faces: How do you change behavior when the incentives fuel the system?