In 2018, baseball instituted new limits on mound visits at every level of affiliated baseball above short-season ball. You may have noticed the mound visit tracker in the majors, where teams only get 6 per 9 inning game. In A-ball, they get 10, in AA they get 8, and in AAA, like the major leagues, they get 6. It was part of Commissioner Rob Manfred’s pace of play initiatives, in which he tried to get the games to speed up a little bit
So what kind of difference has that rule made? How have the players seen it make a difference on the field?