Major League Baseball is looking at possibly limiting the use of relief pitchers in games, according to Rob Manfred.

Any changes would come with an eye on making games move faster.

"I am in favor of something like that," Manfred said. "We (MLB) spend a ton of time on this issue in the last few months."

"You know the problem with relief pitchers is that they're so good. I've got nothing against relief pitchers but they do two things to the game; the pitching changes themselves slow the game down and our relief pitchers have become so dominate at the back end that they actually rob action out of the end of the game, the last few innings of the game. So relief pitchers is a topic that is under active consideration. We're talking about that a lot internally."

The average time of a game is 3 hours, 4 minutes. By comparison, in 2005 games averaged 2 hours, 49 minutes.