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Pitch clocks are coming to Major League Baseball games.
Members of the rules committee are also considering limits on how much shifting defenses can do, using larger bases, restricting pickoff attempts – and possibly using robot umpires to call balls and strikes on a limited basis.
Major league games took two hours, 43-minutes to complete in 2003, and that had jumped by a half-hour by 2020.
An experiment using a clock to keep pitchers throwing the ball cut the average time of games in the minor leagues from just over three hours to about two hours, 37-minutes.
So far, the players think it’s a good idea.
