Hear me out here...
MLB is going about speeding up game play all wrong.
All of the wasted time is in pitching changes and mound visits.
Eliminate both entirely.
No mound visits.At all. No warm up pitches on pitching changes. Not one.
The purist might hate this, but they shouldn't. A purist remembers when most starters had 15 CGs per season and two pitching changes in a game was a lot.
There is no reason in Major League Baseball to take a ten minute timeout for every pitching change and let a pitcher warm up on the mound after already warming up in a bullpen that has the exact same mound dimensions as the one on the field. Different perspective or whatever. Sorry, pitch. Get over it.
No mound visits. Ever.
On a pitching change, the manager stays in the dugout and a new pitcher runs on to the mound and starts pitching.
Nowadays everybody has earpieces in and five-minute mound conferences are nostalgic bull***** The game has eighteen timeouts for each team built in already.
Figure it out between innings.
The pitch clock thing is annoying and they are picking up tiny seconds here and there and ****ing up the game. Just take away the game's weird (and relatively modern) obsession with having conference meetings on the field and bullpen sessions during commercial breaks and you cut your game times by 25%.
Play ball.
MLB is going about speeding up game play all wrong.
All of the wasted time is in pitching changes and mound visits.
Eliminate both entirely.
No mound visits.At all. No warm up pitches on pitching changes. Not one.
The purist might hate this, but they shouldn't. A purist remembers when most starters had 15 CGs per season and two pitching changes in a game was a lot.
There is no reason in Major League Baseball to take a ten minute timeout for every pitching change and let a pitcher warm up on the mound after already warming up in a bullpen that has the exact same mound dimensions as the one on the field. Different perspective or whatever. Sorry, pitch. Get over it.
No mound visits. Ever.
On a pitching change, the manager stays in the dugout and a new pitcher runs on to the mound and starts pitching.
Nowadays everybody has earpieces in and five-minute mound conferences are nostalgic bull***** The game has eighteen timeouts for each team built in already.
Figure it out between innings.
The pitch clock thing is annoying and they are picking up tiny seconds here and there and ****ing up the game. Just take away the game's weird (and relatively modern) obsession with having conference meetings on the field and bullpen sessions during commercial breaks and you cut your game times by 25%.
Play ball.