Major League Baseball, as it is a product and a business with a bottom line, is still concerned with pace of play and how the game is perceived by many fans.
Baseball doesn’t have a clock always winding down. In some ways, this is one of its greatest charms. But it is a more methodical game with built-in pauses between the action, an aspect that some fans — namely the fringe fans the game would love to pull in — might not entirely love. Not everyone wants a three-and-a-half-hour game each night, and the league is well aware of it.