(Pete Peterson (provided))

Major League Baseball’s attempt to shorten the length of games this season seems to be working with the addition of a pitch clock.

But, in his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson looks at how quicker games have created a new problem for MLB teams.

Reading Baseball is a series of essays and commentaries by Richard “Pete” Peterson, the author of Growing Up With Clemente and the editor of The St. Louis Baseball Reader.