The World Baseball Classic is locked in for another edition in 2026—heading for another March setting—while some “minor clarifications” to the MLB pitch timer rules will be announced this week, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said before the WBC championship game Tuesday night.
Baseball’s Competition Committee has been reviewing the new rules this season as it sees them implemented through spring training games. Some adjustments already have been made, including a specification against pitchers using the pitch timer to “quick pitch” batters. He indicated similar clarifications are forthcoming.
“We had a series of clarifications that we're going to announce shortly,” he said. He declined to specify those clarifications but said they have arisen from “things that have come out of player input [and] conversations that have taken place with various people. We're going to announce those in the next day or two. We have another set of issues that we want to see after some regular season games before we make a decision [on those].”
