Perspective | Get ready for a shock: Baseball now looks as it did 40, 50 and 60 years ago.
A longevity calculator said if I smoked, my life would be shorter. But if I watched MLB, it would just feel that way.Baseball has been saved.For decades, I screamed, “Speed up the game before you kill it!” Now I can’t believe what I’m seeing. MLB has turned back the clock — with a clock — by 60 years.Watching spring training games this month, I felt like a kid again. You have to see it to believe it.
This spring, I regularly watched a few innings of a random exhibition game or checked the times of all the day’s games just to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating., in a game with 34 hits. With huge spring rosters, 14 pitchers and 37 position players were used. My head ached thinking how long that marathon took. Four hours, plus?The actual time was 2:50 — or 16 minutes less than the average game over the past 10 years.want to jump the gun because I’m certain of what we’re seeing.
This season is going to be a wonderful shock for most fans. Last year, you were as likely to see a 3:36 game as a 2:36 game. This year, using that 30-minute deviation from the average, you may be as likely to see a 2:05 game as a 3:05 game.Attendance in 2022 was down almost 19 percent from what it was in 2007. In fact, MLB drew bigger average crowds way back in 1991.
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