When the regular portion of the 2023 Major League Baseball season concluded last Sunday, exactly 2,430 games' worth of data went into the books.
What better way to use this data than for reviewing and grading the new rules?
Between four on-field changes that literally made it a whole new ballgame and another that overhauled the general landscape of the season, we're specifically talking about these five changes:
- Pitch timer
- Bigger bases
- Limits on pitcher disengagements
- Shift ban
- Balanced schedule
What were these meant to do?