It’s no secret that baseball has a pace-of-play problem. Then-commissioner Bud Selig formed a committee to investigate the issue as early as 2014. The situation has not improved. Baseball executive Theo Epstein recently joined MLB as a consultant for on-field matters, which is business-speak for, “He’s gonna try and fix the sport.” Only time will tell if Theo will be successful at this or not. Still, he’s already made a statement attempting to identify what he believes is the cause of the problem, which prompted Royals’ player Whit Merrifield to provide a solution:
It’s a simple fix then.