‘Every number is good': Analytics helping speed up baseball
Associated PressA strike zone that looks more like a stop sign than a rectangle. There probably is more coming,” Major League Baseball executive vice president Morgan Sword said Friday at the MIT Sloan School Sports Analytics Conference. “We’re rushing to get stuff done that should have been done 30 years ago,” James said on the conference’s baseball rules panel. The robo-umps could be in the majors as early as next season, but Sword said “all the strike zones we are testing are rectangular.” The solutions that did stick came in three categories: Rules to speed up the game, most notably a timer that limits the wait between pitches; restrictions on defensive shifting; and bigger bases, to make it slightly easier to steal bases. “Right now, every number is good.” When the timer was used in the minor leagues, pitchers worried that rushing would cause more injuries; Sword said injuries were down.
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