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 | | MLB begins final negotiations with players about the pace of the game6.01.2018 |
MLBPA and MLBPA representatives will meet next week in New York for final talks before a US-Canadian juggernaire has been introduced. It will happen as early as 2018, regardless of the position of the trade union, since last February commission commissioner Rob Manfred submitted the necessary 1-year notice entitling him to change the pace of the game. `I personally prefer to get to a mutual deal with the players, ` said Manfred during a meeting with club owners in Florida in November - `But if we can not reach an agreement with MLBPA, we will change the rules for the nextseason one way or another. `Also in November, the head of the Legal Department of MLB, Dan Halem, announced that it was necessary for the League to complete all discussions by mid-January in order for the changes to take effect in time and beexplained to judges and teams. The annual conference of judges is in Arizona after two weeks.
Baseball introduced the Pitcher watch for the first time in 2015 in the Main Leagues. Manfred`s commissioner`s proposal for Major League is that the timer counts 20 seconds. between throws, which means two seconds less than the average interval detected in 2017.
In 2015, other clocks were introduced in the MLB;and the average duration of matches immediately decreased by 6 minutes. In 2016, however, it again reached the 3-hour limit and in 2017 jumped to a record 3:05, 11 am on average per match. By comparison, in 1984 Premier League matches ended for an average of 2, 40 hours
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