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Starting in 2019, MLB tried to cap the number of pitchers a team could carry on its active roster to stem the tide of guys with otherworldly stuff coming out of the bullpen one inning at a time.
MLB experimented in the Atlantic League with a double-hook designated hitter from 2021-13, in which a team lost its DH if its starting pitcher didn’t finish at least five innings in the last two seasons. MLB lowered the maximum on pitchers from 14 to 13 on June 20, 2022, though it is 14 from Sept. 1 on after rosters expand from 26 to 28. The ...
Velocity training is the rage in baseball from the youth levels up through the majors. Players go through specialized programs — often using series of progressively weighted baseballs — in the hopes of speeding up their bodies and arms, pushing them to the limits of what might be possible for their age and ability.
Major League Baseball is getting set for 2025 spring training, with players descending on camps in Florida and Arizona in the second week of February to prepare for the new season.. Pitchers and ...
That winter, MLB decided to limit the number of pitchers a team could carry on its roster to 13. The hope was that if the same number of innings were spread among fewer arms, teams would have to ...
A Major League Baseball roster is a list of players who are allowed, by league agreement, to play for a Major League Baseball (MLB) team. Each MLB team maintains two rosters: an active roster of players eligible to participate in an MLB game, and an expanded roster encompassing the active roster plus additional reserve players.
The training program aims to be a full pitching-development service, to "develop healthy, high velocity pitchers of any age." It incorporates weighted baseballs and elements of recovery, mechanics and command, as well as the work of other pitching experts, such as Mike Marshall , Tom House , Ron Wolforth, Alan Jaeger and Coop DeRenne.
It helps that the games are getting shorter. Attendance at weeknight games is up 12% over 2022 per MLB, in part because fans aren't as concerned they're going to be out all night. To sit down and ...