{"id":358,"date":"2022-03-28T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/?p=358"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:43:15","slug":"is-it-about-time-or-is-it-about-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/is-it-about-time-or-is-it-about-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it about Time? Or is it about Theft?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In regard to the proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/will-a-pitch-clock-actually-shorten-mlb-games-it-depends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">20-second pitch clock rule<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>if i was a base stealer i would wait until 19 seconds, then take off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is this a weakness of the pace-of-play clock rule?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we have been watching how Joe Maddon likes to send his runners when there is a breaking-ball count (ie. the hitter has seen a good sequence of fastballs and an educated guess is that an off-speed pitch is coming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so we will end with some math: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>off-speed count + 19 seconds = i gotta steal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>pitch clock\u00a0 + larger base = runner advantage<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In regard to the proposed 20-second pitch clock rule: if i was a base stealer i would wait until 19 seconds, then take off. is this a weakness of the pace-of-play clock rule? we have been watching how Joe Maddon likes to send his runners when there is a breaking-ball count (ie. the hitter has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135,77],"tags":[119,138],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}