Major League Baseball recently released details behind their three-year agreement with the Atlantic League that will see a plethora of new rule changes implemented during the 2019 Atlantic Championship League Season.
Among the many adaptions include robot umpires calling balls and strikes, restricted mound visits, mound height adjustments and the banning of infield shifts.
Depending on the feedback received by players affected by the rule changes, the new additions could ultimately find their way to MLB in the years ahead.
That presumably wouldn’t sit well with Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Rich Hill, who offered sharp criticism of the rule changes, via J.