The various levels of minor league baseball have long doubled as a live laboratory of sorts for Major League Baseball. It’s where proposed changes to baseball rules go to test their viability. And as baseball desperately looks to speed up the pace of play, a pitch clock looks to be the most effective way to get that done.
With the new CBA, MLB will be able to institute a pitch clock as soon as the 2023 season. It’s inevitable. But wow, it’s pretty clear that some baseball fans are absolutely going to hate it.
A bizarre sequence out of the Class-AA Texas League went viral over the weekend, showing the Midland RockHounds’ Jordan Diaz getting called out on an “automatic” strike with a 2-2 count because he wasn’t ready for the pitch fast enough. Here’s the video:
