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Post by baseba1111 on Feb 12, 2020 22:57:01 GMT -8
with actual strategy for the sake of time. To who does it really matter?
You either love baseball or don't. Games may run a bit long, but for those who love the game and strategy things like replay is wasted time.
So, new pitching rule implementing immediately... A pitcher must face at least 3 batters OR complete the inning. Unless injury precludes this.
We looking at football like fake injuries in the future? Lol
Others really not in game strategy issues... Roster limits have changed... two-way player designations so that they don't count on roster limitations for pitchers... extra player rule now 27 because of new roster limits... less time for managers to ask for review.
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Post by sagebrush on Feb 13, 2020 7:14:48 GMT -8
BS minimal "time saving" rule that will have a negative affect on game strategy wise. 2400+ games played last year and around 700 of them had a situation where a pitcher faced less than three batters that did not end an inning. Not a damn thing wrong with the rule that says a new pitcher must complete an AB to one batter. Baseball is not and has never been a fast based game. There are things they can do to shorten games that have no affect on play or the artistry.
Don't let the batters dink around. Best thing they ever did in HS was put in a rule that a batter could not leave the box between pitches unless time was granted by umpire. And, to scratch your balls, adjust your gloves, play with your hat is is not a reason. You can look at signals while in the box. Put a limit on offensive time outs. Like HS, one an inning is enough. Put a clock on the pitchers. Some of them are human rain delays. 30 seconds is plenty. They're never going to cut the two minutes between half innings. That is advertising revenue time. Have the umpires display some sense of urgency. Guys, we get paid by the game not the hour, freaking move.
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Post by Tigardbeav on Feb 13, 2020 9:27:50 GMT -8
can we blame it on Mike Hargrove?
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Post by sagebrush on Feb 13, 2020 9:37:46 GMT -8
He wasn't the only one.
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Post by mbabeav on Feb 13, 2020 13:59:47 GMT -8
in the end, it will all even out, everyone playing by the same rules (excuse me while i tell the guy hitting the garbage can to knock the $!@# off, hard to type) leads to balance, even if the rules are changed. Might hit a few pitchers who were seen as valuable because of specific matchups, but that's the breaks - stop hitting the garbage cans!
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Post by kersting13 on Feb 13, 2020 14:18:36 GMT -8
I think the 3 batter minimum rule is dumb, and I don't think it will help.
I think the 26th player rule is dumb with 13 pitchers maximum on the roster.
Before 2-3 years ago, you NEVER saw a team carry 13 pitchers. Heck, 20 years ago almost every 25-man active roster was 15 position players and 10 pitchers - I used to predict opening day rosters, and it was always 15/10. During the steroid years they shifted to a 13/12, and just recently it's gone to 12/13. Now it will be a 13/13 position player/pitcher mix, which I think is because teams really needed more position players, but didn't want to give that 13th pitcher spot back to the position players. I believe that rosters and pitcher usage would have shifted back to 13/12 on its own with more relievers going more than 1 inning. The recent problem is that while starting pitchers have reduced their inning counts to 5-6 max, they haven't increased relievers to 2 innings at a time. They're still using relievers at one inning a pop, and that needs to change if your starters are only going 5 on a nightly basis. I feel like the 26th man is one of the bigger changes to baseball rules in a long time.
As for NCAA baseball, the thing that I think makes it slow is the relaying of pitch signs from the dugout to the catcher to the pitcher. It sometimes takes a REALLY long time for that game of "telephone" to play out, especially with runners on 2nd. It all seems like "creep" to me. Just a couple of extra seconds between each pitch compared to 5-10 years ago makes a lot of difference over a whole game.
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