Mark Buehrle Is a One-Man Baseball-Game Accelerator

As my colleagues have pointed out on DataLab, FiveThirtyEight readers are great. The latest example: One perceptive reader saw my article about the slowdown of Major League Baseball games and suggested that the designated-hitter rule might explain why the slowest teams are in the American League, whose clubs play with the DH in their home […]

By Carl Bialik