Yankees’ Aaron Boone curious about ‘drastic’ MLB experiment
NY Post
DUNEDIN, Fla. — After Major League Baseball announced Wednesday it would experiment in the minor leagues with a mound a foot further away from the plate, Yankees manager Aaron Boone called it “drastic,” but was also curious to see how it played out.
The change, which will be implemented in the Atlantic League this season, will make the mound 61’6″ from the plate, with the idea being it will make pitches easier to read for hitters, allowing for more balls to be put in play. “That seems pretty drastic,” Boone said before the Yankees faced the Blue Jays at TD Ballpark. “But… sometimes the craziest of ideas end up having some traction.”More Related News
The Knicks had lost a couple of games in a row, on the road, to the two acknowledged beasts of the NBA East. They’d gotten steamrolled in Milwaukee in the quarterfinals of the In-Season Tournament, getting trucked by 24 and surrendering 146 points, followed that up with a 133-123 humbling in Boston.