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OTM Roundtable: Looking at the new rules

Now seems like a good time for my periodic reminder that, for these roundtables, the question is given out to the staff on Monday in order to give everyone a few days at least to respond. That is particularly relevant this time around since something pretty big happened in the middle of the week with that whole lockout thing coming to an end. I mention that just because, while certainly not irrelevant, this question was asked (and in some cases answered) before the lockout ended. Got it? Got it.

As for the actual question itself, even before the lockout ended one of the bits to come out of leaks from the negotiations was that MLB was working hard to institute pitch clocks, bans on the shift, and bigger bases, which all may be instituted in 2023.