Major League Baseball has been concerned with the pace of play for several seasons now. They’ve tried to speed games along by making hitters stay in the batter’s box, and that hasn’t worked — the average game time in 2017 increased to 3:05, four and a half minutes longer than 2016, and an all-time record.
Thus, writes Craig Calcaterra at Hardball Talk, owners are determined to institute a pitch clock for next season:
Today at the owners meetings down in Florida, MLB’s Chief Legal Officer, Dan Halem, told members of the press that the league would like to get a get a new pace-of-play agreement with MLBPA done that could include a pitch clock.