new minor league baseball rules

[CT1]

TV money controls the timing in MLB games. If the players were willing to take a substantial cut in pay, they could get by with fewer commercials and shorten the game times.

Don’t bet on it.

[SWFLguy]

You are spot on about MLB, and it is the half ton gorilla in other sports too. Nothing beats a football game and all of a sudden they stop playing for a TV commercial.

[bob jenkins]

"no pitch" IW and restricted mound visits are also part of MLB.

The others are reasonably well known / publicized experiments for MiLB -- as they have done for several recent rule changes

[Altor]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

"no pitch" IW and restricted mound visits are also part of MLB.

The others are reasonably well known / publicized experiments for MiLB -- as they have done for several recent rule changes

There are also clocks in MLB stadiums beginning this year. Not for individual pitches, but batters have 20 seconds to get in the box after the previous play is over. And the defense has 2 minutes and 20(?) seconds between innings for any warm up pitches, etc. I don't recall what penalties exist, if any.