While MLB and the MLBPA continue their collective bargaining agreement negotiations on Sunday, one thing MLB wants to include is a pitch clock.
MLB would like to add a 14-second pitch clock when the bases are empty and a 19-second pitch clock when runners are on base, ESPN’s Jesse Rogers reports.
According to Rogers, MLB’s experiments with pitch clocks in lower leagues helped them arrive at this conclusion. MLB first started using a pitch clock in the Arizona Fall League in 2015, but expanded its use to the Low-A last year. As a result, Low-A game times decreased by around 20 minutes.
The reasoning behind the specific time benchmark came from Low-A as well. Rogers explained MLB used 15 and 17 seconds at that level, and the league determined it could decrease time with bases empty but needed to add time with runners on.
