WATCH: Oakland Athletics Pitcher Trevor May Wants to See Pitch Clock Changed
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The pace of play and the overall length of games has been one of the big stories in the early going of the baseball season. Fans seem to generally like that games are ending quicker and that action isn't being sacrificed in order do that.
Most players seem to like the changes as well, but some players are speaking out on things they'd like to see altered.
Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Trevor May has now spent a decade in Major League Baseball and tells Chris Rose of Jomboy Media that he'd like to see the pitch clock be 20 seconds all the time.
Currently, the clock is 15 seconds with no one on base and 20 seconds with someone on base.
May tells Rose as part of the "Chris Rose Rotation" podcast that moving it back to 20 seconds all the time would make a significant difference to pitchers.
"If it were just 20 all the time, it's done, it would be fixed. That way I can shake a pitch and execute a gameplan, because believe it or not, people in the commissioner's office, pitchers have to make decisions based on information and there's actually a process happening when we choose what we're throwing...."
May also said that the changes that were tested in the minor leagues don't reflect the majors because those games don't truly matter in the way that big leagues games do -- therefore, they are not the same....
May is in his first year with the Athletics after spending two seasons with the Mets and six years with the Twins.
He has a lifetime 34-25 record with a 4.34 ERA and has registered 12 career saves.
He's 2-1 thus far this year for the Athletics, who are 2-4 on the season.
