# If I was king of baseball

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 8, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-king-of-baseball/793110 "2017-08-08T17:31:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-was-king-of-baseball/793110/23 "2017-08-08T20:03:18Z")

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Let’s speed up the game and cut down on pitching changes. **RickJay** helped me make this into a real looking rule:

> [@MLB to eliminate four- pitch intentional walk, walks now will be signaled from dugout](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-to-eliminate-four-pitch-intentional-walk-walks-now-will-be-signaled-from-dugout/780496/48):
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> It could be as simple as "A pitcher inserted into the game after one or more at bats of an inning have already taken place must either  
> a) Complete the inning, or  
> b) Pitch to three batters.
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> A pitcher inserted mid-inning and removed prior to meeting either of these conditions shall not be permitted to play in his team’s two subsequent championship season games.\*"
> 
> - = in the rulebook “Championship season game” is the term of art for a regular season game.

With the overall intent being to not change pitchers for every batter late in the game.

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