PITTSBURGH – When the Cubs return to Wrigley Field for their final homestand of the season, High-A South Bend manager Lance Rymel is scheduled to meet them there, fresh off a Midwest League Championship.
“I’m anxious to pick his brain about a couple things with the new rules,” Cubs manager David Ross said last week.
Major League Baseball has used the minors as a testing ground for rule changes, three of which are set to come to the big-leagues next year: the pitch clock, defensive shift restrictions and bigger bases.
The latter two haven’t made the kind of waves in the minors that the pitch clock has.