(O’Brien) Après que les Braves Travis d’Arnaud et Austin Riley ont été touchés à la main/au poignet pendant des jours consécutifs par des lancers vers le haut et vers l’intérieur à Anaheim, un membre éminent du personnel des Braves a déclaré, s’exprimant au nom de nombreux membres de la MLB qui ont eu des problèmes similaires avec des lanceurs aux commandes difficiles : « Le baseball doit s’en occuper. »
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Par Jux_
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I’d say the baseball needs to stop taking care of it, it keeps hurting more players.
Phil Maton…. paging Phil Maton…
It’s either a) let them use sticky stuff or b) move the mound back
Nobody is going to stop trying to throw hard, you either have to give batters more time to get out of the way or something to help the pitchers control their pitches a little better.
The only decade of baseball where there were more HBP on a rate basis was the 1890s. And those pitchers weren’t averaging 95 mph and maxing out over 100 mph.
(2020) 0.46 HBP/G
(2021) 0.43 HBP/G
(2022) 0.42 HBP/G
(2023) 0.43 HBP/G
(2024) 0.43 HBP/G
As recently as 2015, the HBP/G rate was only 0.33.
That may not seem like a big shift to you, but look at the raw totals:
(2015) 1,602 HBP
(2023) 2,112 HBP
And for most of baseball history the HBP rate was even lower. From the 1920s to mid-1990s, the HBP/G rate was around 0.15 to 0.20.
You know what’ll fix this? Make those pitchers throw 6 innings. I’m sure it’ll help.
Unfortunately, one of those pitchers is one of the only healthy Atlanta Braves.
That dude was so ass he hit a PITCHER in the DUGOUT
I wonder about sticky stuff. Why did they ban it, again? But the direct way to fix this is increasing penalty for HBP. Maybe it’s 2 bases. Or make the penalty escalate in some manner. Logically would result in less up/in pitch choice.
How do you solve the fact that everyone has figured it out it’s better to throw 98 with very little idea of where it’s going than 92 with good command?
It is (literally) hurting everyone. Hitters are having their hands, wrists and arms pulverized and pitchers are destroying their own elbows
Two bags for the first victim, automatic ejection for the second.