Major League Baseball had the best laboratory to test potential new rules: the minor leagues. And the league used the minors to do just that the past few seasons.
MLB officials could take a pitch clock or larger bases or elimination of extreme shifts out for a test drive not only with high-level competition, but also with the best of the players and umpires gaining experience under those edicts to carry with them to the majors if the rules changed there .
Notably the pitchers are younger by a large degree in the minors. They are not asked to carry as great a workload, either in games or over the season. The crowds are not as big. The media contingents that cover them are not as large or as intense. And the priority is development, not winning. “In the past when a pitcher had a taxing inning, we could stall on offense,” one top NL executive said. “I would think this will take its toll on pitcher endurance.”
During the past two seasons MLB already set records for pitchers used — 909 in 2021 and 871 last year . This year, there already were 403 pitchers used entering the weekend — 10 more than were used by all 26 teams in 1984.
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