Baseball America

A timeline of MLB changes

This year, MLB embarks on a season of change like few in the modern history of the game.

For a detailed analysis about the myriad on-field rules changes aimed at encouraging action and speeding up pace of play, please see Page 10, and for J.J. Cooper’s read on baseball’s changing broadcasting landscape, please see Page 50.

But before we get to all that, let’s place the most momentous changes of MLB’s expansion era in context.

1960s

The AL expands to Los Angeles and

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