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Oct 21, 2021
6:27:04pm

MrClark Starter

That's kinda brilliant.

My kids entered high school a few years ago. So I hadn't been around high school baseball for 20 years. I could not believe all the pinch running and pinch hitting that now goes on. When I played, we had our starting 9 and occasionally coach would pinch hit if a kid was struggling. Too many mind games being played now. Play freaking baseball!!

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MrClark

Previous username: TheWoodman
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Joined: Dec 26, 2018
Last login: Jan 21, 2023
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Buster Olney saying that MLB exploring limiting the amount of relievers on a roster, reducing the number over time, and

shimmy Shane Belieber

10/21/21 2:10pm

Tying the DH to the SP seems like a reasonable compromise between the current

garyfan

10/21/21 2:13pm

How does this "tying" work? I'd like to understand that idea.

Tricky

10/21/21 2:31pm

Does this mean the DH would only be in the game as long as the SP?

Tricky

10/21/21 2:33pm

Yep, once you sub the SP the DH would be done. I like that idea.

Corn Pop

10/21/21 2:35pm

That's kinda brilliant.

MrClark

10/21/21 6:27pm

Sometimes it takes up to the third inning to get back to the DH spot

BYU'01

10/21/21 6:34pm

I assume it means that when you pull the starter, the corresponding bat (the DH)

garyfan

10/21/21 2:34pm

That's what I'm trying to figure out. Just THAT DH? Relievers could have

Tricky

10/21/21 3:39pm

I don't know. That equates to less baseball which isn't good in my opinion.

UNLVcougar

10/21/21 2:13pm

Games are still 9 innings

shimmy

10/21/21 2:16pm

Yeah I know. But it will be shorter and less dramatic.

UNLVcougar

10/21/21 2:17pm

Why less dramatic?

shimmy

10/21/21 2:18pm

Less going through relievers for specific batters and playing the personnel

UNLVcougar

10/21/21 2:19pm

That will still be there in the later innings, but not the 4th inning. I guess some people like that.

shimmy

10/21/21 2:20pm

We’d have more runs (drama) if that were minimized.

garyfan

10/21/21 2:21pm

they already created a rule to limit that, if you don't know, every reliever has to face a minimum three batters before

ChinaFan

10/22/21 1:45am

I don’t like it. I was impressed with TB trying a new approach to the game.

Revolution

10/21/21 2:15pm

Sounds good in theory, but I’m skeptical that SPs could handle the increased

BigD Coug

10/21/21 2:16pm

7 guys pitched over 190 innings this year. The workload is incredibly low right now.

shimmy

10/21/21 2:17pm

just go find nolan ryan. He could probably go 9 innings right now.

TN_Coug

10/21/21 2:22pm

Rather than limit roster spots for relievers (I’m not sure how you even do that)

garyfan

10/21/21 2:22pm

That is another idea. 5 pitchers available unless there is an injury or extra innings.

shimmy

10/21/21 2:25pm

It won’t change starter workloads. It will change starts by 1-2 inning relievers

BYU'01

10/21/21 6:35pm

Just do the pitch clock and our annoyance will all of this stuff will go away

Memmo

10/21/21 2:27pm

Also, make the batter stay in the box and shorten the break between innings.

Baron

10/21/21 2:34pm

all the pitching changes in the playoffs lead to 4 hour games.

Mayor of Cougartown

10/21/21 2:48pm

Now fix the shifts

Indy Coug

10/21/21 3:07pm

Shifts are dumb but learn to hit around it.

MrClark

10/21/21 6:27pm

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