Kenley Jansen sneered at the prospect of Major League Baseball making changes to improve the sport's pace of play, insisting that the implementation of a pitch clock or the restriction of mound visits will not affect the sport's appeal to viewers.
"That's ridiculous," Jansen said on Wednesday morning before the first official workout for Dodgers pitchers and catchers. "Football is four hours, four and a half hours. The Super Bowl was five hours. Listen man, baseball fans are not going to stop watching the game because the game is too long. Let's stop that. I think that's ridiculous.