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DUNEDIN, Fla. — At this point, it’s difficult to be a baseball fan and not know that the league is implementing a series of relatively drastic rule changes in 2023. In a concerted and explicit effort to speed up the game while adding more old-school action, Major League Baseball is debuting a pitch timer, a ban on shifts and bigger bases this season.
We’ll have to wait for real games — and maybe even really meaningful games — to find out how effective these measures will be and the possible shenanigans that will ensue when they’re applied.