‘Every number is good’: Analytics helping speed up baseball

By JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer

With the new pitch clock showing early success at speeding up the sport, baseball’s brain trust is already trying to figure out what might come next in its efforts to make the games more exciting and keep them moving along. Panelists at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference say they would like to see things such as robot umpires and other rule changes to help cut further down the time of baseball game. And the people running the sport are using the same kind of number-crunching analytics that caused the problem to solve the problem.