MLB Pitch Clock Violations Bot⁠

A Twitter bot, written in Go, that tracked MLB pitch clock violations in the clock's first season.

An outfield pitch clock reading 00, with empty seats behind it

$ cat README.md

2023 brought the pitch clock to MLB, and I wanted to see how often players were running afoul of it. So I wrote a bot that tracked pitch clock violations around the league and posted them to Twitter as @MLBClockTracker.

It was also my excuse to learn Go. I’d been meaning to pick it up, and a small bot that polls an API, keeps a little state and posts what it finds felt like the right size of project to learn a new language on.

Sadly, it’s shut down: Twitter (now X) started charging for API access, and a hobby bot couldn’t justify the bill. The code is still up on GitHub.

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