Baseball Season is here, and with it comes some new rules to help put a new spin on America's Favorite pastime.
MLB's 2023 Opening Day is this week! All 30 teams will play in 15 games on opening day, Thursday, March 30th. With the new season comesnew rules. These rules have been going through a trial period in the minor leagues and they've finally brought them up to the major leagues! Get ou...
One of the most intriguing storylines heading into the 2023 MLB season is how thenew rules being implementedwill impact the game. With new infield shift restrictions, a pitch timer and larger bases among the changes this year, it will be exciting to watch the resulting effects. MLB Network br...
Pitchers have applied foreign substances to the baseball almost as long as there has been a baseball. The first rules prohibiting players from discoloring or otherwise damaging the ball date back to the late 1800s. But early in MLB’s modern era, which dates back to 1901, the success of p...
MLB’s New Rules Are the Best Thing to Happen to Baseball in a Long Time / Giants infielder J.D. Davis stepped into the batter’s box in the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium on Thursday and suddenly transported us all the way back to the Dark Ages of baseball, which is to say seven...
Breaking down MLB's new rules on infield slides, pace of play / In the wake of a pair of serious injuries suffered via questionable take-out slides at second base, Major League Baseball and the players' unionhave announced a couple of changes to the rule bookfor 2016, defining what consti...
It became clear a couple of years ago that Major League Baseball and its commissioner, Rob Manfred, were working toward an inevitable introduction of weird extra-innings rules, and in this space we were pretty harsh to it. "The runner-on-second-with-nobody-out fix is just about the ...
MLB Introduces New Rules to Speed Up GameJanes, Chelsea
1 MANFRED team in baseball last season; the Guardians’ pitchers took the least time between pitches, they used shifts less often than every team except one and their runners had the fastest sprint speed. The Guardians are basically a team custom-built to capitalize on MLB’s new rules....
Major league pitchers and batters aren't the only ones going on the clock this season — big league broadcasters have also been using spring training to adjust to baseball's new rhythm amid a series of rules changes.