On Monday at Tradition Field, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred met with the Mets, fielding questions from the team about the direction of the game.
Included in the discussion was the game’s new pace-of-play rules which were announced in February.
“I thought the feedback on pace of the game was positive. I think they understand what it is we’re trying to accomplish,” Manfred said, according to Joe Frisaro of MLB.com. “I think they appreciate the fact that we’ve taken a kind of measured approach to the problem that we don’t unintentionally change the game in a way that it may not be positive.”
Manfred said they are concerned with the downward trend in offense in recent years, but they’re still evaluating the cause and reasons for the trend.
“We know what the numbers look like,” Manfred explained. “Where we really are on that project is we’re trying to decide, do we have a trend that is going to be persistent in terms of less offense, or do we have a development where there’s a little less offense and hitters are going to adjust and it’s going to go back in the other direction. So we’re not really at the remedy phase.”
For more from Manfred’s talk with the Mets, go to MLB.com.
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