It still doesn’t to some of those who’ve now gone through a new alternate timeline in the exhaustive history of baseball. Ask around and you get shrugged shoulders, guys shaking their heads, trying to find the right words to describe how their game — and potentially path to the Major Leagues — suddenly can be so different.
So when a series of new rules were announced in March aimed at reducing the length of extra-inning games and number of mound visits during a game throughout minor league baseball, the one that topped the list has proved to be most, let’s say, unnatural.