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To: discostu

Getting rid of four pitches isn’t going to affect the length of games like raising the bottom of the strike zone will. As in you cut off 20 or 25 seconds for every automatic intentional but get how many more baserunners on hits and walks? More hits and baserunners mean longer innings and more pitches thrown to more batters which means today more pitching changes sooner. Raising the bottom of the zone, at least without bringing back the high strike will only make games longer, I mean how could it not?

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47 posted on 05/22/2016 1:35:10 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed

The innings might get longer, but they’re longer with stuff actually happening, people getting on base, getting in scoring position, maybe even scoring. Unlike the pitches for the intentional walk which are a whole lot of nothing.


49 posted on 05/22/2016 1:37:04 PM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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