Major League Baseball (MLB) continues to work to establish new rules in order to make Major League Baseball a faster and more entertaining sport for fans, this time a limit was established on the number of pitchers that each team will have on its roster.
Among the regulations that will be implemented as of 2022, the MLB established as new rule, that each team may have a maximum of 15 pitchers on their daily regular season roster with the exceptions of April and September . In other words, this rule will be in force from May 1 to August 2, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today.
Likewise, it was indicated that those pitchers who are injured after May 1 they will be placed on the 15 days disabled list instead of days “to help curb roster manipulation,” added Nightengale.
The Major League board, headed by Commissioner Rob Manfred, has been trying to reduce the time of the games for several years with the intention of making them faster and more entertaining for young people , which is the audience that watches baseball the least in the United States.
To do this, Manfred has focused on the work of the pitchers, who now must face a minimum of three batters before be removed from the commitment, this to avoid the constant changes of pitchers during the games.
For its part, a time limit was also implemented for the pitching coach or the catcher to approach the mound to talk to your pitchers, this time is regular do for the umpires.
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