Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have agreed to rule tweaks that will expand rosters, place an automatic runner on second base during extra innings and allow pitchers to remain in the lineup after they have been replaced on the mound, an industry source confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday.
The last of those changes will make it a lot easier for the Los Angeles Angels to keep Shohei Ohtani's bat in the lineup on his start days.
The new rules, first reported on by the New York Post, won't be official until MLB's owners ratify them with a simple majority next week, the source told ESPN.