Just curious: How will the new rules impact future books?

Even though we’ve just started the 2023 season, I can’t wait until it’s over to see what books will come out praising or damning the impact of the new rule changes. What about the record books? Will there be new categories for pitch clock violations? The box scores carry them (“Pitch timer violations: Carrasco 2 (pitcher 2); Narváez (batter timer); Canha (batter timer)”) so it seems like a natural progression. When a batter is charged with a violation, what does that do for the pitch count? Does the catcher get the putout? What symbol will you use in the scorebook? A swinging strikeout has traditionally been a “K” (although in my earliest days, I just used “SO”), with a called strikeout a backwards “K.” Will During the Mets game, the broadcasters were suggesting different notation, such as a “rotated K” either facing up or down.

In the first game of the year Jeff McNeil was charged with a strike because the baserunner, Pete Alonso, took too much time getting back to first, according to the umpire. Does that get a special bookkeeping notation?

There are other new rules that might have to been reconsidered in the written annals of the game. One question I heard during a game was, what happens if a coach or manager “violates” the limit of visits to the mound? How is the defensive team penalized?

Reading the new edition of The Baseball Field Guide by Dan Formosa and Paul Hamburger, now in its fourth revision. This has long been my favorite “introductory” book to the game, as opposed to something like Baseball for Dummies or The Complete Idiots Guide to Baseball. The former was “written” by Joe Morgan, the latter by Johnny Bench, giving a very rudimentary look at the game. I would say almost insultingly so but then one of the problem I have, with all due modesty, as someone who’s read a lot of baseball books, is that these were written for people who don’t know much about the national pastime.

Field Guide is a well-designed, attractive package, in terms of narrative, examples, and illustration. And upon further reflection, this is about the rules of the game, not necessarily a primer on various elements such as how to play, history, statistics, etc.

But my question remains: What will any future books about the 2023 season and its rule changes look like?

Anxiously awaiting the answer.