Last year, Aaron Boone's opening spring training talk with his players in the New York Yankees' camp was built around Major League Baseball's implementation of the pitch clock. "It was everything," Boone said recently. His theme was about adaptation, about preparing for the change, about embracing the challenge rather than complaining about it.
In Boone's inaugural address this year, he said, the subject of the pitch clock never came up. Not once. Because the players seem to have quickly evolved, adjusted old habits and moved on.
The pitch clock still generates a fair share of headlines.