Recently there is a lot of talk about how to speed up baseball games. MLB has implemented a pitch clock, but IMHO the twenty-second rule is hardly enforced. A change that will really help is to stop the warmup pitches between the team at-bats, an idea an acquaintance of mine came up with. Always wondered…
How cool is this? An umpire who is catching some warmup pitches until the catcher is coming out of the dugout. When do you see this? I think this is awesome. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPA_aeiAXlW/?utm_medium=copy_link
The now “independent” Pioneer League has announced a set of rule changes. The most eye catching is the rule that bans extra innings. The first rule change is a “check swing” appeal from the home plate umpire after the base umpire (first or third) has made a call on a check swing appeal by the…
By now you will know that yours truly loathes MLB because they failed to punish those who were responsible for the Astros sign-stealing scandal. The greedy MLB owners rather protect their product than punishing those who participated in this scandal. Instead, they banned the Astros’ GM and manager to save their face. I am going…
If you are fed up with MLB like yours truly or you just want to watch baseball beyond MLB and beyond the US borders, my fellow blogger Words Above Replacement has done some thorough research and placed links of every possible streaming option into a streaming guide. Here is the link to his good work….
For years I have been wondering if players like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb would be able to keep up with modern day baseball. For years I couldn’t tell as I didn’t know how hard pitchers threw back then. Until today. Today I watched the documentary “Fastball.” And in that documentary featured a story about…
For those interested in high quality baseball other than MLB, there is an open website (yes it is legal) to watch KBO games. The website is of the Korean streaming service Naver.com. When you enter the website, you have to scroll down a little bit to get to today’s games. Here is the link. Enjoy.
Offspeed pitches have always been my favorite. I love to see how a batter is swinging for a ball even before it is at the plate. But did you know that for many knuckleball pitchers, the knuckleball has been a last refuge from being sent down or from being released? Many great knuckleball pitchers like…
In the past decade, the interest for baseball has been declining. The reason? It is hard to think of just one reason. But when even hardcore baseball fans say the game has become boring, you know something is wrong. Even in the USA there are attempts to speed up the game, to make the game…
We all may know that the opening game of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Los Angeles Coliseum drew over 90,000 fans. But 22 years earlier, a baseball event drew even 100,000 spectators. And it wasn’t even at American soil. On a summer day in August during the 1936 Olympics, baseball was a demonstration sport…
