What We Learned Through a Quarter of the M.L.B. Season
There is no question that this season will go down in history as the one in which the pitch clock changed baseball. Whether it is also the season that saved baseball is too soon to tell, but the pitch clock’s effect is real: With around a quarter of the season complete, the average game is 27 minutes shorter than it was last season and the percentage of games lasting longer than 3 hours 30 minutes has fallen off a cliff, to 0.4 percent, after having been higher than 10 percent in five of the previous six seasons.
But while everyone has been focusing on how quickly things are moving, there have been some other notable developments.
Here is what we’ve learned:
Source: The New York Times
