The Plan to Save Baseball From Boredom

<p>Major League Baseball is putting in effect some of the biggest changes in the sport’s history in an effort to speed up the game and inject more activity.</p><p>As the 2023 season opens, Michael Schmidt, a Times reporter, explains the extraordinary plan to save baseball from the tyranny of the home run.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-s-schmidt?smid=pc-thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">Michael S. Schmidt</a>, a national security correspondent for The New York Times.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>With<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/27/sports/baseball/rob-manfred-mlb-new-rules.html"> three major rule changes</a> this season, Major League Baseball will try to reinvent itself while looking to the game’s past for inspiration.</li><li>Here’s a look at the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/24/sports/baseball/mlb-rule-changes.html"> new rules</a>.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>