Paul Sullivan: From a 3-batter minimum to only 1 trade deadline: Will these rule changes improve baseball?
GLENDALE, Ariz. - In the never-ending search to persuade millennials to pay more attention to the national pastime, Major League Baseball and the players union announced a slew of new rules to reduce downtime, create more action, spice up the All-Star Game and generally improve the product.
Most are relatively tame, such as reducing mound visits from six to five, shaving five seconds off inning breaks during locally televised games and awarding the Home Run Derby champion $1 million in a feeble attempt to get Mike Trout involved. ("I think everyone wants a million bucks," Trout responded. "But I don't know if it changes my thought process.")
They've tabled the draconian measure of introducing a pitch clock, a move that forever would alter the poetic notion of
