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Major League Baseball average game times are down almost 8 1/2 minutes from 2014, thanks to the leagues new pace-of-game rules.Thats good news not just for fans, but players as well; reports that MLB officials and the players union are in discu sions to Daniel Jones Jersey drop the fines for slow play the league could impose beginning Friday.MORE: | According to Major League Baseball, through Wednesdays games, the average nine-inning game time of just under two hours and 54 minutes is 8 1/2 minutes quicker than the 3:02 average in 2014.The succe s of the new pace-of-game rules has Wayne Gallman Jersey led MLB officials to rethink the need to institute slow-playfines, which would range from $100 to $500 for infractions such Harry Carson Jersey as leaving the batters box during an at-bat.MLB officials agreed to give players a month of play to get used to the new procedures, i suing warnings for infractions, before i suing fines beginning May 1.Tony Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players A sociation, says the union feels the penalties should be relaxed or eliminated because the new rules have already been so effective.The idea here, Clark said, Darius Slayton Jersey was to effect some positive changes in habits, and to see if, by doing so, we could also shorten the length of games and perhaps improve the pace. And the result is that a lot of players have done exactly that. So to penalize guys just to penalize them doesn't make a lot of sense.The Saquon Barkley Jersey by many fans during the season's first month. Among the new regulations: Batters must keep one foot in the batter's box during their plate appearance, and reliefpitchers have a limited amount of time to warm up.While 8 1/2 minutes may not sound like a lot of time in certain contexts, its a huge improvement in terms of average game time. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, if that Dexter Lawrence Jersey figure were to hold up for the entire 2015 season, it would mark the biggest drop in average game time since 1963, when times dropped from 2:34 to 2:25.