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Major League Baseball released its 2025 schedule on July 18, 2024. There are 162 games scheduled for all teams. The scheduling formula was modified this season to increase the number of games between "prime" Interleague rivals from four to six, playing two three-game series instead of two two-game series.
The most recent significant rule changes to the OBR occurred in 2023, when MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred introduced rules adding a pitch clock, extra-inning base runners, and restricting infield shifts. These rules have been gradually adopted in North America (and in WBSC competition), but generally do not exist elsewhere in the world.
The automated ball-strike system is undergoing similar scrutiny and will be deployed in major league spring training for the first time in 2025; the system still needs to vault some technical ...
Baseball rule changes having tangible impact Nearly two seasons into MLB’s great experiment, the tide has turned. The average game time has dropped to 2 hours, 36 minutes, the lowest since 1984.
On December 21, 2023, MLB announced a set of rule changes to take effect in 2024. [ 14 ] Following a dead ball, the pitch clock will restart as soon as the pitcher receives a new ball from the umpire (previously the clock restarted once the pitcher entered the circle around the pitcher's mound).
MLB and Nike are making changes to the player uniforms for the 2025 season. The uniforms have faced heavy criticism for a variety of issues, including small lettering and discoloration from sweat.
The 2025 Washington Nationals season is the Nationals' 21st season as the Major League Baseball franchise in the District of Columbia, the 18th season at Nationals Park, and the 57th since the original team was started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [1] [2] The Nationals are led by Dave Martinez in his seventh year as manager.
The famous “Year of the Pitcher,” highlighted by Bob Gibson’s microscopic 1.12 ERA, also led to a radical rule change as the mound was lowered from 15 to 10 inches high for the 1969 season.