More Changes From The New CBA

An interesting long-form article at ESPN about the many changes coming due to the new CBA. Among them: Allowing teams from the same division to meet in the playoffs before the league championship series. A ban on all visible tattoos, and any tattoos of commercial logos. Pace-of-game violations of up to $10,000 after the sixth violation. This means things like stepping out of the batter's box or taking too long to deliver a pitch. Plays subject to instant replay will expand to include fair/foul calls, fan interference calls, and caught/trapped calls. These are still subject to approval from the umpire's union. (Why they haven't added another umpire to the crews yet I have no idea, but it seems to me to make sense.) Bans team officials and players from contesting official scoring decisions, instead making it mandatory that this go through the league offices. Much more at the link.