For almost a decade now, pace of play has been one of the most discussed problems about the modern game of baseball, if not the single most-discussed problem. From Joe West’s famous complaint about Yankees-Red Sox games that regularly ran more than three and a half hours more than a decade ago, to modern concerns about “Three True Outcome” baseball adding immense amounts of “dead air” to the game, perhaps nothing has been talked about more this side of the Steroid Era than pace of play, with the possible exception of the trash can scandal.
On Tom Verducci, pace of play, and baseball’s true problems
