Time-wasting?
How many days does a cricket match last for, again?
Actually, sports medicine has determined that throwing a baseball at the major league level puts the arm at near it’s physical limits. There’s no “getting in better shape” to throw harder. A pitcher generates a peak of three horsepower, all focused on the shoulder and elbow joints.
Notice that in the history of baseball, the hardest throwers haven’t really gained much speed even with vastly better nutrition, training and improved mechanics along with computer analysis.
This should go into effect tomorrow!
What will happen is that hitting will absolutely balloon to historically massive levels, thus warping statistics and lengthening the games you want to shorten.
You’re solving a problem that effectively doesn’t exist; position players are rarely double substituted.
A foul ball with two strikes is Strike Three.
You tried to hit it fair, you failed, now go sit down.
After a pitcher is yanked, the relief pitcher coming out of the bullpen gets zero warm-up pitches. The game continues immediately
This would dramatically change the game. There would be a hell of a lot more strikeouts, and a hell of a lot less hits.
Personally, I like a long at bat (if the batter doesn’t step out between every pitch) with lots of foul balls. It’s interesting to see who will prevail on pitch 8 or 9 of a battle like that.
While I do not favor any of the more radical changes discussed above (very limited subs and foul strike threes), I do wonder what the game might look like in other alternate universes. In one perhaps there is a 360 degree field a la cricket with say 6 bases and 14 fielders and more distant fences meaning that defense and speed are paramount. Even a 180 degree field with 5 bases and 11 fielders might be interesting.
While I vehemently disagree with most of your post, this one is kind of interesting to me. I wouldn’t want to change the rule, because I think that would lead to way too many strikeouts and a good bit of subjectivity as to whether the bat just barely hit the ball or not, but I do have a question to the MLB rule experts:
What happens if there’s a foul tip, but the ball bounces up to hit the catcher’s mask, and then ricochets up in the air, hangs there for a second or two, and then the catcher fields it cleanly? Is that still a foul tip, or is that a pop out in foul territory?
Major League Baseball Rules Project
Note:the video doesn’t work so no link.
Ah, so just a dead ball then, in my example.
I’m pretty sure the OP said that I am the king of baseball. Relegation is for the good of my kingdom.
Yep, and we should make every player in the lineup pitch one inning every game. There is absolutely no room for specialization in sports.
Its cool to have ironman football where you play offense and defense but it can make for boring games when everyone is fucking tired all the time. Baseball could use more excitement and if specialization is how we get that then I say lets have more of it.
Heck I’d b OK with a designated hitter rule for catchers too. These guys earn their money on defense, not offense.
Its not the existence of ties that make soccer Nancy-kneed.
I never understood why the fuck this guy is so successful at a job he performs so poorly.
This guy is like the Robert E Lee of baseball.
+1
Some teams have higher operating costs than others regardless of player salary. Its more expensive to run an operation in NYC than in St. Louis.
How about expansion teams?
So you want the cheerleaders to dance to an organist?
If I were King of Baseball, AL Umpires would go back to wearing those magnificent burgundy jackets. I’d eventually get around to reversing the automatic base on balls and the instant replays and outlawing batters stepping out of the box for any reason short of cerebral hemorrhage, but the burgundy jackets coming back is by far the most important change.
Absolutely, give them a DH too if they can’t hit but they are worth a spot on the roster purely for fielding. The size of the roster is the limiting factor. Someone who has a more complete game is more valuable than someone who can only field.
Courtesy runners used to be a thing. Someone else used to run the bases for Babe Ruth. Once again it might take up a spot on the roster if they can’t do anything other than run (but if they have any sort of glove, you could probably put him somewhere in the outfield as well).
DH for catchers. Designated runners for the DH.
It turns into a better version of baseball that is much more interesting to watch.
Its not that many and frankly pitchers get sports related surgery more than almost any other athlete in sports because of the strain on their arms from to many pitches.
If a city pays anything for a stadium, it owns a percentage of the team based on the value of the stadium and the value of the team.
Its just an incredibly high level of play. I would bet that almost every pitcher was probably a pretty good hitter in high school but as the competition increases, it is just a rare bird that can pitch at the MLB level AND hit at the MLB level.
Are you kidding me? We should add cheerleaders and Game of Thrones teasers in between innings; end every game with a total eclipse and fireworks.
Make the game more fun for younger people, the old farts like us are going to show up to games and complain no matter what you do.