On Tuesday it was announced, to much fanfare, that bullpen carts are slated to make a triumphant return to Major League Baseball in 2018 with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Bullpen carts were a mainstay of professional baseball from the 1950s all the way up until 1995 when the last iteration of the form of transport was used by the Milwaukee Brewers when they brought relievers in sitting in a sidecar attached to a motorcycle.
We are assured to see the bullpen cart re-appear across the league in the next few years and while lip service may be given to pace of play considerations and nostalgia, don’t get it twisted.