From ESPN:
Visits to the mound to clean cleats in rainy weather, to check on an injury or potential injury or after the announcement of an offensive substitution are excepted. Also, normal communication between player and pitcher that do not require either to vacate their position on the field do not count as a visit. If a team is out of visits, the umpire will have discretion to grant a visit at the catcher's request if he believes there has been a cross-up between the pitcher and catcher.
Given these terms I suspect that there will be many "potential injury checks" and "cross-ups." And given how "well" umpires enforced the rule agaisnt batters leaving the box last season, I won't be surprised to see the same happen with these new rules.
Visits to the mound to clean cleats in rainy weather, to check on an injury or potential injury or after the announcement of an offensive substitution are excepted. Also, normal communication between player and pitcher that do not require either to vacate their position on the field do not count as a visit. If a team is out of visits, the umpire will have discretion to grant a visit at the catcher's request if he believes there has been a cross-up between the pitcher and catcher.
Given these terms I suspect that there will be many "potential injury checks" and "cross-ups." And given how "well" umpires enforced the rule agaisnt batters leaving the box last season, I won't be surprised to see the same happen with these new rules.