
It just seems important to keep an eye on this because maybe last year's minors results were the outlier and a pitch clock really does equate to more trips to the injured list. We're getting pieces anointing this experiment as an enormous success already and, to be clear, there's a lot to like. It sure seems like grouping those Herculean stresses closer together is also a dangerous game and a 26 percent spike is concerning. Hurlers throwing harder than ever is obviously a factor here. It's still a small sample size and determining the cause and effect is never going to be cut and dry.

The Mets led the way with 12 injured list stints by P- Jesse Rogers May 1, 2023

The increase was all with pitchers, 180 compared to 143 last yr. There were 270 injured list stints through April, the most in 40 yrs. So we sort of forgot about it until today when ESPN's Jesse Rogers revealed that, for some reason, April brought a historic jump in pitching injuries.įastball velocity was at its highest ever before May: 92.8 mph Table /SHCM/DBPSYNC keeps track of the pending/failed employee records from previous/delta synchronization, which will then be picked up in the next run of the sync job. We spoke to a few of the best baseball minds on the planet and they were far less concerned about such a situation because it didn't arise when the clock was tested in the minors. Table IEMPLOYEE provides info on the link between Employee and BP in S/4HANA. One could argue that a few high-profile trips to the injured list as a result of the breakneck initiative could ultimately do more to hurt the game than benefit it. Though this was tested in the minors last season and the data suggests such a concern be from the Chicken Little playbook, I remain concerned that pitchers working at this pace and batters swinging with such force before they are truly ready is a recipe for injury. It might be a big thing.īack in February, we laid out a potential worst-case scenario when it comes to the unintended consequences of players playing faster and with more ferocity than ever before.

But overall, the pace-of-play initiatives are yielding nice returns and going back to unlimited, untimed breaks in play is off the table forever. As for the in-person experience? Well, it hasn't been as great because two hours can really fly by for a father who brings the whole family and needs to stand in assorted lines and play in the concourse fun houses. The pitch clock has made watching games on television so, so, so much more enjoyable. A month into the Major League Baseball and there's tremendous news to report.
