Posted on 03/28/2024 4:41:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Phillies and the Atlanta Braves reputedly are among the elite teams of major-league baseball, but if the quality of play at Citizens Bank Park during their season-opening series doesn’t quite measure up to expectations, go gentle on the booing.
These players are experiencing a form of abrupt climate change, says Struan Coleman, a sports medicine specialist who practices in New York and Philly.
When the Phillies left Clearwater, Fla., after their final spring training game Monday, the high was 83 degrees, and daily highs since the team began playing their practice games in Florida on Feb. 25 have averaged about 80.
By contrast, when the teams take the field Friday, after Thursday’s rainout, the air temperatures will be in the mid-50s, with the air holding well less than half the moisture of those spring-training sites.
One comprehensive study documented that such a degree of coolness can affect the quality of play. The early season can be particularly challenging for hitters. “It’s more about the cold rather than the rustiness,” study co-author Brandon Koch, a statistics professor at the University of Minnesota, said Tuesday.
While temperature may benefit pitchers, cold may have had a downside for their control: They issued more walks when it was chilly.
“Climate in baseball is incredibly important,” said Coleman, who practices at the Vincera Institute in Philadelphia, “and something that should be looked at and discussed more carefully.” He added that he would like to interest the Phillies in an analysis of the relationship of weather and sports injuries.
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The article is talking weather, not climate.
Gee, I wonder how they survived in those flannel uniforms that were worn up through the 1960s, lol. Bet you also experienced the climate a great deal in places like Connie Mack, Ebbets Field, the Polo Grounds, Griffith Park, Crosley, and Forbes and elsewhere like that back then.
Oh FFS.
Anything to push the climate cultist lies.
I mean who could possibly predict weather in the 50s in March?
I can imagine experiencing the climate at Wrigley or old Comiskey in Chicago or when the Giants still played at Candlestick in San Francisco.
This person should be gibbeted unless the story is satire…
The weather is different between Florida and Pennsylvania in March? What’s up with that?
There is a reason why MLB teams have spring training in Florida and Arizona, it’s WARM in those states in February and March.
Conversely, it’s COLD in NE and Midwest Cities making outdoor baseball nearly impossible.
This has been going on for over 100 years of MLB.
But they're can predict climate change!
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Most play in domed stadiums now.
It would really help if there was an IQ test for journalists - and they were required to reach a two digit minimum.
Sadly, few could.
But, this does constitute the first dose of daily climate fear porn presented by those to whom third grade math is akin to calculus on manifolds (and that ain’t car manifolds).
Sen John Kennedy eviscerates 'expert cross country skier' over clueless climate change testimony
Are any games going to be cancelled because of snow? No matter which way you answer the cause is climate change.
...they can...
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Still cracking up...
I recall that MLB didn’t start the regular season until the second week of April. Owners’ greed has motivated starting the regular season in the last week of March, even in cities like Philadelphia
I’m beginning to think that this author, like so many other people in this world, really doesn’t know any freakin’ better! This is not the America we used to know. When, in our history, have we ever gone through times like these? I hope that we can recover from this.
So, spring.
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