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Margaret's avatar

Interesting thoughts. Brings up a couple questions from me - what was the average pitch speed when pitchers were being kept in for not hitters vs now, and has there been a correlating increase in injury as average pitch speeds have ticked up? Also, is there a different approach seen if the no hitter is happening at home (and therefore subject to home teams media rights) vs away, where the other team gets the media rights benefits?

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Patrick Gourley's avatar

That latter question is especially interesting - based on the list of pitchers pulled during a no-hitter, it looks like there is a trend towards leaving pitchers in when they are at home. Over the last few years, twice as many pitchers on no-hitters have been pulled when away. I wonder if that's managers not wanting to be booed by their own fans.

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Margaret's avatar

I think capitalism is your answer - the team cares more about eyeballs on screens when it’s their own media rights deal

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