07-26-2020, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Westheim
There's no guarantee that this bullhorn makes anything shorter. Small sample size, but in this game it gave everybody an extra challenge in the top 10th, and the Rays probably would have won it in the bottom 10th anyway.
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From our earlier discussion, in this thread, on this topic
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Originally Posted by CBeisbol
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Originally Posted by CBeisbol
The purpose of the rule is to resolve games-on the field-more quickly.
This rule accomplishes that.
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https://blogs.fangraphs.com/so-just-...-rule-give-us/
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We have two years’ worth of data from the minors to work with, and per MiLB, the results are notable. Over the last two seasons, just 43 total games went more than three extra innings, compared to 345 in 2016 and ‘17 combined. And as Baseball America’s JJ Cooper notes, nearly three-quarters of all extra-innings minor league games last year and the year before ended in the 10th, as opposed to just under half in the two seasons prior. And nearly all of them — 93% — finished in the 10th or 11th, representing a 20% increase.
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Again, the rule was designed to shorten extra inning games, and is doing exactly that.
Hard to argue the rule is dumb when it's obviously successful
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