What rule changes should MLB make? Our mailbag analyzes your suggestions

Baseball, you may have heard, is a simple game.You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball.Yet the rulebook that governs Major League Baseball games runs 57,991 words across a 192-page PDF I highly recommend as bedtime reading. For a simple game, there sure are a lot of rules. For instance, Rule 3.03(h): “Glass buttons and polished metal shall not be used on a uniform.”Advertisement