Posted on 02/12/2020 6:13:37 PM PST by mcenedo
Major League Baseball announced a series of new rules for the 2020 season, headlined by pitchers being subject to a three-batter minimum. That rule will be officially implemented during spring training on March 12.
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“...using another camera that didn’t have a delay then ban those...”
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No need for a new rule, they were already banned.
They had installed their own centerfield camera
and transmitted the signal live to a monitor in the clubhouse
where the signals were deciphered by the crew
and the next pitch was telegraphed to the batter.
That was the cheat.
It was against the rules, and they all knew it.
They got caught.
Remember Barney Fife’s “rules”?
Rule 1: Obey all the rules.
Major League Baseball announced a series of new rules for the 2020 season, headlined by pitchers being subject to a three-batter minimum.
That’s too many varieties for one pitcher.
I watched that. It faked out the ump, not Bench. It wasn’t even close to a strike.
It may have been cheating but it sure didn’t work they a lot better on the road than at home.
They seem to be doing the stuff that cuts small amounts of dead time. To cut large amounts, they would need the 20-second clock, a time limit on replay reviews (it takes 6 minutes to get clear and convincing evidence?), limiting the number of times a batter can step out of the box, reducing warmup pitches, and limiting walk-up music.
Finding a way to reduce foul balls would help, too, but I can’t think of a good way to do that without fundamentally changing the way we build ballparks.
Including the play-offs and series? Interesting.
What they’re trying to stop is the situation where the manager comes out to change pitchers, then you wait for the new pitcher to come in and warm up, which kills several minutes, then the reliever gets the batter on two or three pitches, at which point the manager comes out, takes the ball, and we wait for yet another pitcher, and now several minutes have elapsed with only a couple of pitches thrown.
I think it will be interesting to see how they use the 26th roster slot.
used two be 1 minutes between half innings., Now in the series it’s 3.5 minutes Commercials
Yeah, if the pitch/batter’s box time limit was actually enforced as it is in the book it would go a long way. I still maintain most of the problems come from the way the strike zone is called. But they want action, and to most modern casual sports fans ‘action’ simply means scoring. But in baseball the tension of pitching is also ‘action.’ To casual fans pitching is jsut boring stuff that happens between their action.
If you increase scoring by having a tiny strike zone or limiting relief pitching, the game is inherently going to be longer. One dimensional left handed power hitters will become more effective again for sure. I guess we will have to see if scoring goes up dramatically, modern players are already strike out machines so maybe it won’t. I guess they aren’t limiting the radical shifts this year, so that’s another factor.
My first reaction to this is don’t limit strategy, I want teams to have a variety of strategies. We’ll see if this 3 batter/inning ending things lasts.
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Al Gore is that you? :>)
Yes, calling the rulebook strike zone would help a lot.
The average time between pitches is 23 seconds. If they enforced a 20-second rule, that’s three seconds a pitch, and since the average nine-inning game contains about 300 pitches (give or take a few), that saves 900 seconds, which is 15 minutes, and does it in a way that’s barely noticeable.
I wish they would just enforce the pitch clock instead of limiting how a manager can use his pitching staff. I don’t even like it that they are now ruling you can only carry 13 pitchers on the roster. The more varieties of strategy in building a team the better in my book. Most of the problems that are hurting the modern game can be solved without limiting strategy. I hope they never limit shifts but it’s probably coming. Can’t have one dimensional pull hitters lose out I guess.
Freegards
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