Tom Glavine revealed his thoughts on the MLB rule changes and how the 2023 Braves gave him a new perspective on his 90s teams.
But what got Glavine just as excited as anything is talking about how the new pitch clock in Major League Baseball has made things better for fans of the league — even if those fans are, like him, legendary former players."I've watched more baseball this year than I have in the last five years, simply because it's a better product to watch right now," Glavine said."Sitting there for four-and-a-half hours to watch home runs, strikeouts and walks was just not much fun.
"I kind of laugh a little bit watching pitchers today trying to control the running game, trying to figure out when to throw over or trying to figure out slide steps and do all those things that you know we had to do," Glavine said."The late-1980swere single-handedly the reason why I learned how to slide step because those guys ran all over you if you didn't pay attention to them… The no-shift [rules], I think, have been great. The single's sexy again.
"I just think that's such a big part of the game, both for hitters and pitchers," Glavine said."If you're a pitcher and you can fill up the zone, and you make it hard for an umpire not to call strikes. That's a good thing, right? If you're a hitter, and you've got the reputation of being a great hitter in the strike zone and [having] command of the strike zone, you're gonna get the benefit of some calls.
"I think all of us evolved and became better and did some things differently," Glavine said."I say this about just about every guy that comes to the big leagues now, they have better stuff and they're probably a little bit more polished in some ways than I was and John probably was.
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