Pitch Clock Controversy Predicted to Exclude Players... KBO Needs to Come Up with a Solution Quickly
The half-baked introduction caused opposition on the spot... We must declare that it will not be implemented this year.
In the early days of professional baseball exhibition games, the 'pitch clock', which strictly measures the interval between pitches between pitches, has emerged as a hot topic.
With the opening of the exhibition game on the 9th, the controversy is heating up as some field leaders publicly expressed their opposition to implementing a pitch clock this season.
The KBO secretariat has decided to introduce the pitch clock to Korean professional baseball this year, which was introduced last year in Major League Baseball (ML and has had a great effect in reducing game time, and is currently operating it in demonstration games.
According to pitch clock regulations, a pitcher must pitch within 23 seconds when there are runners on base and within 18 seconds when there are no runners on base.
In addition, the batter must complete preparations for hitting when the 8 second mark appears.
If this is violated, the pitcher will be judged a ball and the batter will be judged a strike.
The KBO secretariat decided to pilot the pitch clock in the first half of the 2024 season and then review whether to officially implement it in the second half of the season.
The problem is that the voices of players, who are parties to the application of the new system, were completely excluded during the discussion and decision to introduce the pitch clock.
It was controversial from the beginning.
The reason why field officials, including players, are more opposed to the pitch clock than to the automatic pitch judgment system (ABS), which is being implemented from this year's regular season through the same procedure, is because it has not been sufficiently reviewed and tested.
The KBO Secretariat has piloted ABS in the Futures (Second Division) League for four years since 2020.
The decision to introduce the first team was made in a situation where operational know-how was accumulated and the psychological resistance of players and coaches was greatly reduced.
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