When Major League Baseball announced their new rule requiring that all pitchers (Dodgers and all other teams alike) will be held to a three-batter minimum beginning in the 2020 season, it was met with a mixed response. From the obvious benefits to the speed of play to the worry over the potential loss of pitching roles, there were positives and negatives to the rule change.
On one hand, the league has been heavily focused on improving the speed of play. In a world dominated by attention spans measured by the length topics trend on social media, the three to four hour MLB experience has long been perceived as the culprit to waning interest among younger viewers.