Page 2: MLB adds pace-of-play rules for '15

San Diego Padres manager Bud Black said he hopes the changes will help lead to a brisker pacewithout altering baseball's competitive dynamic.

"I think it's a good thing that we're exploring certain ways to speed up a little bit of the dead time,''Black said Friday from Padres camp. "There's dead time all the way throughout a game -- in betweeninnings, in between pitches, and when guys are mlb the show 15 taking their at-bats. There's sometime that can be crunched a little bit to help the pace.

"But I think we're all conscious of the way the game flows -- especially late in the game, whendecisions might be at the highest for a manager or a pitcher-catcher combination. You don't want tolet the pace of play interfere with conversations between a pitcher and a catcher, or from a pitchingcoach talking about strategy. Those are the things I think we worry about when you talk about paceof play.''

The new replay rules intend to reduce the time managers spend chatting with umps while awaitingrecommendations from video coordinators or their own coaches.

Among the changes, managers now can review whether a runner left a base early or properlytouched a base. However, managers must now use a challenge for a review of the collision rule,which was decided by umpires in 2014.

Managers are encouraged to request a replay -- either verbally or with a hand signal -- from thedugout instead of walking out on the field to challenge a call. This should take place within 20 to 30seconds of the original call being made, sources told Stark.

Managers, who used to retain their challenges after the first overturned call, now will retain theirchallenges after every call that is overturned. In addition, they will get a new second challenge touse during during regular-season tiebreaker games, the All-Star Game and postseason games.

"The Pace of Game Committee wants to take measured steps as we address this industry goal toquicken the pace of our great game," said Atlanta Braves president John Schuerholz, who was thechairman of the Pace of Game and Replay Committee. "It is not an objective of ours to achieve adramatic time reduction right away; it is more important to develop a culture of better habits and astructure with more exact timings for non-game action."

Jayson Stark and Jerry Crasnick ofESPN.com and The Associated Presscontributed to this report.

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