With the Opening Day of the 2017 season just about one month away, Major League Baseball recently came to an agreement with the MLB players association on multiple rule changes that will go into affect at the beginning of the season.
Now official is the bypassing of throwing four balls to complete an intentional walk. Instead, a manager can simply signal from the dugout for an intentional walk, and the batter will immediately be awarded first base.
Further effort by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to improve pace and action amounts to a change with the replay preview process.