Using pitchers as openers has strategic value but is it good for the game? Dodgers starter Max Scherzer doesn't think it's something fans like to see.
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Wall Street Baseball is the quest to find and exploit even the tiniest of advantages. Just win, baby, and who cares about the aesthetics? “From a fan’s perspective and baseball as a whole,” Scherzer said Saturday, “if you look at it more from the game outside and say, ‘Is this something that ... we want the game to go into? Do we want to see this in the regular season?’ my answer is no.Dodgers pitcher Max Scherzer and manager Dave Roberts discuss their feelings on baseball’s new trend of using openers to start games.
That might have been a special circumstance, but starting pitchers can have marquee value over the course of a season. Anticipation drives ticket sales, and the chance to see Scherzer or Kershaw or Jacob deGrom can lure fans.released Thursday, Americans were asked to name their favorite sport. Football ranked first, with baseball and basketball tied for second.
MLB used the minor leagues and independent leagues this year as a laboratory, testing rules changes that included robot umpires, limits on defensive shifts and pickoff attempts, a 15-second pitch clock, and moving the mound back one foot.Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and second baseman Trea Turner talk about the team’s 3-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of the NLCS on Saturday.
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