Confess your unpopular opinion: I’m in favor of pitch clocks.
In taking this stance, I’m probably in the minority. Major League Baseball’s push to speed up the game has met with resistance from the Players’ union as well as commentators like Drew Creasman and Ryan Fazio, who predict dire consequences. They make good points when arguing against the implementation of a pitch clock. Here are the basics:
- The games haven’t gotten that much longer (3 hours, 5 minutes, 45 seconds in 2017), and shaving 10 or 15 minutes off a game isn’t significant enough to risk altering the fundamentals of the game.