The landscape of college baseball is changing.
Beginning this season teams will use a bat which plays more like wood. The balls do not come off the newer bat as fast which makes the game safer for fielders and we probably won't see as much offense this season.
Players and coaches will have to adjust to a time limit as well as the new bats this season.
With no one on base pitchers have 20 seconds to deliver a pitch. They get one warning then the batter will be awarded a ball.
The new rule works both ways... If the batter is the cause of a pitch not thrown in the 20 second limit he will be given a strike. Like the pitcher, hitters are given a warning.
If college baseball games are shortened and the focus is put on pitching & defense I'm a huge fan of the new rules. Maybe that is my National League roots showing....But I''l take a 4-3 game in less than three hours any day.
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