If it were named anything else besides "moneyball," the take about it glorifying underpaying players wouldn't exist.

I'm not old enough to remember a pre-moneyball world, but MLB has been mitigating the effects of the “three true outcomes” problem quite well over the last few years. The pitch clock is the best thing to happen to baseball since integration.

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dudinax 5 days ago | parent [-]

There's a pitch clock now? So much for the Jamie Moyer rule that "the game doesn't start til I start it."

	▲	ryukoposting 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's been around for a few years now. Games went from averaging around 3 hours to averaging 2.5. The long tail of 3.5-4.5 hour games were basically eliminated. The only time that happens now is if you get extra innings, high pitch counts, and lots of plate appearances that don't end in outs -- in other words, longer games are long because they're good! Occasionally an old head will grumble about it, but even the old guys tend to be pretty happy about the pitch clock.