The NCAA Baseball Rules Committee has unanimously approved two new rules intended to speed up the game. The eight-member committee, which met this week in Indianapolis, set a 20-second limit between pitches when no runners are on base and a 90-second limit between innings during non-televised games
Halpin said the clock starts on a pitcher once the catcher has thrown the ball back to him. He must start his next delivery — whether in the full windup or stretch — in 20 seconds
Also, home-run celebrations will be curtailed. The rules committee said players cannot greet the home-run hitter at home plate and instead can go no farther than the warning track area outside the dugout, or about 15 feet.
Personally, I think some of this is unreasonable. IMHO Baseball doesn't take that long unless there are 20 or so runs scored. The umpires need stop watches now?
JayJ79 wrote:20 seconds is more than enough time to get a pitch off.
I agree 100%
Ump's won't need stop watches for this I woudln't think.
I would also like to see rules committees put an end to taking 5-10 seconds worth of signs between every pitch by batters
umps should just signal play ready (i.e. allowing pitchers to make a legal pitch) after a reasonable amount of time, whether the batters are ready or not.
Football and basketball has a playclock, why not baseball?
(even volleyball has a limit on how long a server has to serve once the ref has signalled play ready)
The problem with signaling the play ready, without an actual rule to back you up, is that each ump/coach/player has a different opinion of what a "reasonable time" is. With a rule in place this solves that issue for both sides.
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