For one year, at least, the players have avoided a pitch clock. On Monday afternoon, Major League Baseball announced new changes to its rules in support of speeding up the pace of play, but those didn’t include the addition of a timer between pitches. Instead, the league settled for a far more modest adjustment, limiting the number of mound visits that players, coaches and managers can make to six, and also shortening the amount of time between innings to two minutes and five seconds.
The curtailing of trips to the mound is the biggest change, though its effect will likely be more aesthetic than anything else.