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Actually, the Red Sox broadcast booth has been ALLLLL OVER Beckett while he's struggling this year because they think his slow pace is messing up the infielders and causing a lot more seeing eye singles and fielding errors. Blowers was talking about that problem with Beckett during Iwakuma's last start before this one and he said the last time they faced Boston, their staff was trying to fix his timing issue and he was stubbornly refusing to fix it because he believed that taking a longer time caused hitters to tighten up.
And BTW Doc...how is that time recorded (per pitch length)? Does that count all the times the batter and catcher call for time because they're being iced by the pitcher taking a long time to pitch? Or the time spent by the pitcher walking around the mound? Or the time lost due to throws to first or second to hold runners?