When to Go. The South Pacific islands covered in this guide lie within the tropics. Compared to the pronounced winters and summers of the temperate zones, there is little variation from one island group to the next: They are warm and humid all year.
While an increase in run scoring pushed the average MLB game over three hours for the first time in the year 2000, the current trend comes at a time when offense has declined across the league. Games averaged 3.13 hours â or three hours and eight minutes â in 2014, the longest of any year in a Baseball Prospectus archive that dates back to 1950.
Major League Baseball average game times are down almost 8 1/2 minutes from 2014, thanks to the leagueâs new pace-of-game rules. Thatâs good news not just for fans, but players as well; ESPN reports that MLB officials and the players union are in discussions to drop the fines for slow play the league could impose beginning Friday.