Pitch Counts Appear Down with BBCOR Play

Thoughts.

Sanity has been returned to college baseball.

LSU is in deep do do...

I was wondering, if this stat holds up, will it effect the current position of about 1/3 roster pitchers.....or will it put even more emphasis on hitters?

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Originally posted by Harv:
A sample of 10 NAIA Games box scores yielded pitch counts for 9 inning substantially less than previous years. While one game required 115 from the winning team most were in the low 60's with game times well under two hours.

Thoughts?

Good info!

quote:

Originally posted by Harv:
A sample of 10 NAIA Games box scores yielded pitch counts for 9 inning substantially less than previous years. While one game required 115 from the winning team most were in the low 60's with game times well under two hours.

Thoughts?

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!

Low 60's for a 9 inning game? 7 pitches per inning? I don't buy that.

It is a little too early to make any concerete assessments about how the new bat rule is affecting pitch counts. However if it turns out that it lowers overall pitch counts, it sounds like another benefit.

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Originally posted by BOF:
Thoughts.

Sanity has been returned to college baseball.

LSU is in deep do do...

"LSU home runs slipped from 36 in fall practices of 2009 to six in 2010. Tigers head coach Paul Mainieri pans the BBCOR restrictions."

Scratching my head wondering why he doesn't like the new rule...

http://www.postandcourier.com/...s-fewer-college-hrs/

I'll bet that this is simply transitional. A lot of players are still playing the game like they had the older bats.

Once it finally hits home that the cheap hits that players used to get in the past aren't going to happen college players will start taking more pitches and running the count deeper.

I also see it as a wake up call for the defense. More balls staying in the park plus more "less well" hit balls mean more opportunities to make plays (and mistakes). Time to hone the skills.

Also, as someone alluded to in a similar recent thread, should we perhaps not be trying to extrapolate early-season games - in potentially cold weather (compared to 2 months from now) - over a full season and comparing that to past full seasons? I think the comment was about HRs being adversely affected by cold weather and that once things warm up, the numbers being seen now might go up.

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Thoughts?

Hope you not surprised by this revelation.

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Originally posted by BOF:
Thoughts.

Sanity has been returned to college baseball.

LSU is in deep do do...

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Are you saying that most of the winning teams had around 60 pitches? That's fewer than 7 pitches per inning. Doesn't sound right.

I agree Rob, 60 pitches sounds way too low. I never saw that few pitches with wood bats in the summers. Altough they were high school players.

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Originally posted by fillsfan:
I agree Rob, 60 pitches sounds way too low. I never saw that few pitches with wood bats in the summers. Altough they were high school players.

60 sounds like a pretty good number.
For 4-5 innings. How many times do we see MLB pitchers hit the 100 count before the 6th or 7th?
Home runs will be down but pitch counts will still average over 100 for 9 innings.

60 pitches sounds just right this is the beginning of the season.

Speaking of beginning of the season, pitchers always has the advantage until the hitters find their rythm.

From my understanding, if the hitting coach has not helped the player to make some changes, you are in deep do do.

The programs with the better skilled hitters will still dominate, if so, has anything really changed?

quote:

Originally posted by Harv:
A sample of 10 NAIA Games box scores yielded pitch counts for 9 inning substantially less than previous years. While one game required 115 from the winning team most were in the low 60's with game times well under two hours.

Thoughts?

They were playing an average of 1.2 outs per inning?

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60 pitches sounds just right this is the beginning of the season.

No, this can't possibly be a common pitch count for a nine inning game this year, even with the BBCOR bats.

It says here that 58 is the lowest pitch count ever in an MLB game, more than 65 years ago.