- Pitch clock in baseball
- Pitch clock and pitchers in MLB baseball
- The effect of pitch clock on increasing action on basepaths but also bettering pitcher’s stats
- Pitch clock increases action on the basepaths while also allowing pitcher’s to get better stats
- Decreasing pitch clock timers would allow for even more action on the basepaths and make pitcher’s throw faster and better their stats
- Decreasing pitch clock timers to the lowest possible amount of time would allow for lots of action on the basepaths and better pitchers stats by making pitchers go so fast that batters will have to react extremely quick to counter it
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Counterintuitive Spring 2024 
The Pitch Clock is certainly controversial and makes for a good topic if you want an argument, EaglesFan.
Your 3-4-5-6- sequence isn’t so much a narrowing of your Hypothesis as a back-and-forth between two points of view.
Your conclusion (6) is odd in that it pretends to be arguable when in fact, it couldn’t be easier to prove. All you need to do is compare the ONE season of Pitch Clock regulations with any prior year. The numbers should be pretty easy to find. You phrase the claim as if it requires FUTURE evidence, but it doesn’t. Was there more action on the base paths in the 2023 season? Did pitchers’ ERAs suffer?
It’s clear that the MLB doesn’t care about pitcher stats, right? They want shorter games and more base runners to fight back against declining fan interest in 4-hour pitchers’ duels with 30 combined strikeouts.
There’s definitely potential for a good essay here, but you haven’t found the Hypothesis yet. By the way, you haven’t mentioned that batters are prohibited from long delays at the plate, too. Does this balance the scales?
I wonder if you can find a pitcher who actually benefitted from the time limit. It would be counterintuitive, but certainly not impossible, that a pitcher who used to suffer from indecision might benefit from being compelled to put the ball in play faster.
Schedule a Zoom conference. I’m eager to discuss this with you.
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What a fascinating conversation, EaglesFan. Thank you for already revising your #6 to reflect my feedback and for being open to the idea that a pitch clock could benefit everyone, pitchers included. It won’t be easy to research the speculative proposal that the time be shortened further, but it should lead lots of lively conjecture. This lays out nicely for a semester project. 1000 words to define the parameters of the Ideal Pitch Clock Rules. 1000 words to describe the EFFECTS of the 2023 pitch clock experiment and what CAUSED them, plus your projections about the EFFECTS of further refinement of the timing. Then 1000 words to address your critics, who will either object to the timer in the first place or strenuously object to shortening the time even further. 1000 + 1000 + 1000 = your 3000-word Research Position Paper.
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