The MLB has been flirting with some rule changes over the past few years and they finally made them official on Friday. The league announced a new pitch clock as well as rules for defensive positioning to ban the shift, among other things, starting next season.

While these rule changes are in an attempt to speed up the game, not everyone is in favor of them. In fact, some people are very adamantly against them – or at least the way they’re being instituted.

One of those people is Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Strahm.

Strahm sounded off on the new rule changes on Audacy’s “The Bradfo Sho” podcast.

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 By Ryan Gilbert

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The MLB has been flirting with some rule changes over the past few years and they finally made them official on Friday. The league announced a new pitch clock as well as rules for defensive positioning to ban the shift, among other things, starting next season.

While these rule changes are in an attempt to speed up the game, not everyone is in favor of them. In fact, some people are very adamantly against them – or at least the way they’re being instituted.

One of those people is Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Strahm.

Strahm sounded off on the new rule changes on Audacy’s “The Bradfo Sho” podcast.

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“I think they’re unnecessary. They talk about the 26 minutes it’s saved in minor league baseball games, but what they don’t talk about is how many pitchers in between every inning are waiting for the extra 35 seconds that Major League Baseball has put in between innings for ad purposes,” Strahm said (1:35 in player above). “They talk about all this wanting to speed the game up. The one beautiful thing about baseball, to me, is there’s never been a clock in the game.”

There will be a 15-second clock for pitchers if the bases are empty. That goes up to 20 seconds if there is at least one runner on base.