Welcome to Snyder's Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the ...

Two on-field rule changes will be implemented beginning this season after MLB’s competition committee unanimously passed them earlier this week. The first involves a modification to the shift rules ...

In a proposed trade from Zach Pressnell of FanSided, they'd accomplish just that. Pressnell proposed a trade that would send ...

The changes attempt to avoid rare instances where the old rules could have incentivized teams to try to game the system.