NEW YORK — It’s hard getting those who make their living covering baseball to agree on anything. Still, with a small sample size to work with, they are nearly unanimous in their praise of MLB’s new rules and how they already have accelerated the pace of the game.
Nonetheless, the rapid consensus over a pitch clock being baseball’s salvation, cannot quantify if a quicker pace will bring more eyeballs to MLB telecasts, including Mets games on SNY and Yankees broadcasts on YES.
MLB wants Time of Game to average around 2 hours, 30 minutes. Under that number, which is going to be fluid, a 7 p.m. start will end around 9:30 p.m. Television prime time, the hours when the universe of viewers is at its highest, extends from 8 p.m.-11 p.m.
