Major League Baseball’s competition committee approved sweeping rule changes Friday set to take effect in 2023. You would be hard pressed to find too many players who are agnostic on the new rules that will come to the sport a year from now.
While the size of bases will increase and pitchers will be limited in the amount of “disengagements” they can have per plate appearance, the two most discussed changes are the banning of drastic defensive overshifts in the infield and the introduction of a pitch clock.
The days of having three defenders on the right side of the infield — perhaps even with one in shallow right field — will end when the 2022 World Series concludes.