CHICAGO — Here’s what you need to know about the impact of baseball’s big rule changes: Action and offense is up; game time is down. The latter significantly.
Sure, it’s only been a little more than a week. Sure, there will be other checkpoints along the way, but what more needs to be said to pronounce this a raving success and be done with the whole process? To — gulp — laud Rob Manfred for bringing life back to the game?
We know it’s been a lot to digest, with bigger bases, pitch clocks and different ready moments for batters and pitchers, and pickoff limitations. We know there are some folks who like things just the way they remember. Like that guy who used to sell Pepperidge Farms cookies on TV. Believe he did it while driving a horse-drawn carriage.
