Minor league baseball has been the testing ground for a lot of commissioner Rob Manfred’s crusade against baseball games taking as long as they need to take and the latest round of rules announced are particularly radical.
Of course, as we know, baseball isn’t hip with the youth these days apparently because games take longer than the extended cut of a summer blockbuster (or maybe it’s because MLB markets itself so poorly that half the sporting world couldn’t pick Mike Trout out of a lineup but insert Kermit sippin’ some Lipton here), so the answer has been to tinker with ways to shave a couple of minutes off the game that was made to never answer to time.