Major League Baseball continues to discover methods to hurry up the sport after implementing a pitch timer in 2023 that decreased the typical time of a nine-inning recreation by 24 minutes.

According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, MLB’s competitors committee is “weighing a proposal that would reduce the pitch clock with runners on base from 20 seconds to 18 next season.” The 15-second pitch clock with out runners on base would stay the identical.

The proposal is in response to a gradual seven-minute improve within the common time of recreation final season as gamers adjusted to the brand new pitch clock guidelines.

Passan additionally reported that the committee is contemplating a proposal to cut back mound visits from 5 per recreation to 4.

The competitors committee is an 11-person panel comprised of six members representing groups, 4 gamers and one umpire.

Passan famous that gamers have “voiced concerns regarding the reduction of the clock,” citing a slew of pitching accidents all through the 2023 season. However, MLB has pushed again on that concern

The common time of recreation in April of final season was 2:37 however elevated to 2:44 in September.

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