As Susan Slusser reports, mound visits are going the way of VHS tapes (assuming you can expect to be visited by 6 VHS tape each day). Not only are mound visits being limited to 6 per game, but more importantly, “visits” apparently includes social calls from “players” — which presumably incorporates that most frequent mound guest, the catcher.
That’s a heck of a shakeup, considering that previously not only were a visit per inning allowed from pitching coaches or managers, but in between you would routinely see roughly 17 visits from the catcher. Whether that number represented the number “between visits from somebody else” or “per inning” depended on the catcher.