'Somebody else may have more revenue or higher ratings. But I think the important thing for us is that we always keep our eye on maintaining the place of baseball in American culture.' MLB is one of the 100 most influential companies of 2023
— have given our fans a game that’s more like the ideal game, from their perspective. It’s not just about the time. It’s also about the action, the pace of the game. We’ve literally had an overwhelming response to the changes. Everything from improved attendance, to better ratings, to emails from parents saying, ‘I can take my kid to a baseball game on a weeknight even during school,’ which is crucial to the future of our sport.
You had experimented with the new rules in spring training, and it was pretty clear that the planets would still align and the sky wouldn’t fall. Baseball was still baseball. But were you nervous at all that, once the game started counting on Opening Day, that this thing was going to not blow up somehow?
There are a number of things that affect pitcher injuries. As a matter of fact, during a period of time when pitchers were pitching more and more slowly, pitcher injuries went up throughout that entire period. Our medical people do not believe that the pitch clock is a causal factor. It’s very hard to isolate a single factor. But we’re not seeing anything in the data that leads us to believe that the pitch clock is related to increased injuries.
It’s not that I’m against analytics. As a matter of fact, it’s a huge part of my decision making process. With respect to analytics, it’s the same as any management tool. It depends on what your goal is. We allowed individual baseball operations people to use analytics, and they were directed at one goal and one goal only: how can I win one more game? And there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s competition. The problem is, that goal may not be the optimal goal for the industry as a whole.
We continue to hope that we’ll use it at the big league level. Just like with the rule changes we implemented this year, there are issues we’re still working through at the minor league level. There are actually two forms of the system that we’re testing, one a challenge system and one where every pitch is called. And we have some work to do before we’re ready to make a decision as to how you deploy it.The single biggest issue is actually the single biggest advantage.
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