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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
Are the “make the games shorter” deals more of this BS “play less baseball” stuff? I know I saw the pitch clocks were a part of things but I have to say, pitch clocks have been tried many, many times in the past and don’t seem to work. At the very least you’d need umpires to stop allowing batters to call time between pitches and treat the 19 seconds or whatever as inviolable (also, the game operating at a regular rhythm tends to aid the pitcher).
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I believe that the Pitch Clock rules that were being used in the minor leagues require the batter to be in the box at a specific point on the pitch clock or a strike will be assigned.