MLB mound visit

[Guest Roy Barclay]

Can an mlb manager meet on the mound with a new pitcher who enters the game at the start of a half inning without it counting as a mound visit?

[LRZ]

OBR 5.10(m)(2): "For purposes of this Rule 5.10(m), a manager or coach trip to the mound to meet with the pitcher shall constitute a visit."

[Senor Azul]

From the 2018 Minor League Baseball Umpire Manual (section 5.63, p. 76):  Managers or coaches will be charged with a mound visit if they visit the mound during an inning break or after a new pitcher enters the game. (Under the comment to Rule 5.10(l), a manager is charged with a mound visit if he visits the mound to speak with a new pitcher after a coach removes the prior pitcher.)

2021 OBR Rule 5.10(l) Comment:  …If the coach goes to the mound and removes a pitcher and then the manager goes to the mound to talk with the new pitcher, that will constitute one trip to that new pitcher that inning.