Posted on 03/03/2017 2:37:54 AM PST by SMGFan
Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have come to agreement on several rules modifications, it was announced on Thursday. The changes include the anticipated alteration to the intentional walk and a fine-tuning of the replay review process, as well as changes that address some modern developments. Among the modifications:
• The adoption of a no-pitch intentional walk. Managers will signal to the home-plate umpire their decision to intentionally walk a batter, and the umpire will immediately award first base to the batter.
• Managers will have 30 seconds to decide whether to challenge a play and invoke a replay review.
• When a manager has exhausted his challenges for the game, crew chiefs may invoke replay review for non-home run calls beginning in the eighth inning, instead of the seventh inning.
• With some exceptions, replay officials in the Replay Operations Center in New York will have two minutes to render a decision on a replay review.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.mlb.com ...
no pitch IBB will last one season.
What a stupid rule. Wild pitches, opportunities to steal, a batter who may want to swing anyway....
Baseball.
MLB | Wild Intentional Walks HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-euNcCMy0CA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJBMm70kRgo
How about salaries based on last years performance, now this would make the game a non snoozer
We can only hope. If they stopped the preening between pitches it would be far more effective.
One of the most exciting plays in baseball.
Stupid. The intentional walk is one of the interesting times in the game. Will the batter reach out and slam a careless pitch? Will the pitcher hit a batter?
Now it is a nothing burger. Better to remove it all together
Okay, the IBB rule is a cave to commercial interests. However, I will not miss watch John Lester try to throw an intentional walk.
Now just waiting for it to dawn on them that once a ball has been deemed to have left the field as a fair ball, that there’s really no “need” for the batter, or anyone on base at the time for that matter, to go through the time consuming ritual of ‘touching’ all the bases...just all head for the dugout.
Yep.
None of these are designed for ‘pace of the game’; they are designed to allow more advertising time.
Someone on an NYC sports radio show pointed out that MLB averages one intentional walk every three games, and this particular move will reduce the length of a game by less than one minute.
Wild pitches, opportunities to steal, a batter who may want to swing anyway....
how often do any of the things you’ve referenced actually occur...?
They weren’t losing viewers fast enough?
This will speed up the process.
When you change the fundamentals it’s not the same game.
Why not just go directly to Tee-Ball?
Not often. Which means when they do happen, it is memorable.
Take football for instance. The teams still have to line up and take a knee in the waning moments of the game. The offense doesn’t get to say “Oh, we’ll take a knee”...
-PJ
I remember seeing a game where the pitcher and catcher got sloppy and the batter reached out and hit one of the pitches and got on base. I seem to recall it advanced a runner from 2nd to third, rather than setting up a possible double play.
It’s been a very long time, I don’t recall who the game was between, nor the exact situation, but I’m completely against this.
Mark
MLB is ruining professional baseball the same way the NFL has ruined professional football.
Look at any MLB game on TV. A large portion of the spectators are texting or otherwise glued to their smart phones throughout the game, even those in the best seats. I would make a bet that during an intentional walk nearly every fan is sharply focused on the pitcher and the catcher. It is an interesting and captivating part of the game and should remain so.
Hope you're right. Unfortunately I remember thinking the same thing about the stupid designated hitter rule.
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