There’s no escaping the clocks. In every spring training complex, on every main field and backfield, teams are keeping time.
This is how MLB is preparing for its new pitch clock. In these early spring bullpen sessions and rounds of live batting practice, pitchers have been working with the timer, knowing they will have to do so for real when spring training games start on Friday. But there’s another portion of the rule: The hitter is subject to the pitch clock, too. And that side of the equation is much harder to work on in advance.
“That’s the unknown,” says Orioles manager Brandon Hyde.
