MLB is enjoying a bit of a renaissance these days with a bump in attendance and TV ratings. Fans, players and the game's executives are largely in agreement that the new rules have made for a more ...

learned to live with the rules introduced this year. Ask the All-Stars and they’ll tell you baseball’s new rules are good for the game. Pitcher Shane McClanahan, the star left-hander who ...

What happens when a fan becomes involved in a live play? Major League Baseball has a pretty clear rule on this. Per the MLB rulebook: In every case of spectator interference with a batted or ...

But Rule 21, the edict against gambling, is unambiguous. That’s why Padres utility player Tucupita Marcano became the first active player in 100 years to be banned from baseball on Tuesday ...

Players could have no more than 75 at-bats, 45 innings or have been on an MLB roster between May 15 and Sept. 1 of any previous season. That rule seemed too restrictive, so it was rapidly changed ...

Tony Blengino covers all things baseball, with an analytical bent ... And then there are the rules designed to bring back the stolen base. First, and perhaps most basically, the size of the ...

Greyser, Stephen A., Mac Levin, and Brent Schwarz. "Major League Baseball: Changing the Rules of America’s Pastime." Harvard Business School Case 924-307, June 2024. (Revised September 2024.) ...

Rob Manfred gives a deadline to implement an automated strike zone, and it's not that soon Manfred and MLB will likely wait until the start of a new CBA to fully implement such a complex rule change.

Ahead of the 2025 MLB season, rumors are swirling about new rule changes, with Robo Umpires headlining discussions regarding ...

The rules regarding mound visits have been tweaked regularly over the past few years. There was no limit on the number and duration of mound visits until the 2016 season, when the MLB introduced a ...

Further complicating matters was MLB’s rule for replacing an injured player ... “Because it’s not a new injury, that’s the way the rule is written right now. It’s something that in ...