Major League Baseball is five days from opening day
and spring training is all but a memory. The rules implemented by MLB over the winter
to speed up games appear to be working...so far. Pitchers and hitters are on the clock and the
overall time of games is reported by MLB to be down 25 minutes per game.
If you read this blog regularly you know I've
lobbied for faster games for years. Up
through last year the games had become
snooze fests with batters stepping out, pitchers stepping off and fans taking a
nap between pitches.
Now that spring training games are almost behind us
let's hope major league umpires enforce the rules once the real season begins
on March 30th.
