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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
I’ve yet to see any study that indicates that velo increases the longer you hold onto the ball. Care to cite that?
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TA DA!
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...n-to-speed-up/
I will back that up with a confirmation from
Tony Massarottie who covered the Red Sox for years and now is a sports talk show host for 98.5 the Sports Hub in Boston. Take it for what it's worth: Mazz has contacts in the Red Sox who indeed say the pitchers were instructed to hold the ball longer to increase their velocity.
So yes, analytics nerds are ruining baseball. The pitch clock rule is designed to combat just that.