DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

For Dominican baseball fans, this is the pre-season where trade rumors, new signings, returning heroes and emerging stars have to be discussed.

This weekend, the president of the Dominican Professional Baseball League (Lidom), Vitelio Mejia, announced on CDN Sports, that the Dominican Winter League would put into practice the current Major League Baseball (MLB) rules. In this case, especially the new rules concerning the time it takes a pitcher to throw the ball, and the time it takes for a batter to get ready to hit the ball.

Mejia told the interviewers, quite rightly, that the Dominican Leagues is the third best baseball league in the world, and as such, needs to implement all of MLB’s rules, especially the new use of clocks for pitchers and batters.

Now, while most people who have watched a Major League game this year know, the pitcher has 15 seconds to throw the ball is there is nobody on...