Baseball: Change the rules

[Copper]

Yes, there are problems.

The game has changed, not for the better.

I would slow the ball before I moved the pitcher's mound.

Or lower the mound, again. It was lowered 5 inches in 1968.

If they ever try to change 90 feet between bases that will be the end of the game.

[George K]

@copper said in Baseball: Change the rules:

I would slow the ball

How?

[Copper]

I think they have played with the seams before.

They can make the seams a little bigger to introduce drag.

This is debatable, endlessly.

Because the ball doesn't just travel from the pitcher to the batter. Other players throw it and catch it and it gets hit.

But I think this might be better than changing distances.

They could, maybe, make it a little softer. That doesn't slow the pitch, but it could reduce home runs.

[George K]

Eliminate steroids???

[Jolly]

College already has the twenty second clock. It works.

[Loki]

A clock between pitches would just restore the game to the way it used to be played.

[Jolly]

The CWS was pretty entertaining, if you like baseball. The clock forces faster game play. They also use metal bats...That's long been a hotly debated point in the major leagues.

[George K]

Will comments that pitchers "dawdle" between pitches to allow the arm to recover.

If you put a clock on the game, it's going to change how pitchers throw the ball, I assume.

[Copper]

In 1884, Old Hoss Radbourn pitched in 75 games.

He started 73 of them and won 60, with 678 innings pitched

And he did it for $3,000.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/radboch01.shtml

This is how pitchers should pitch.

Justin Verlander won the Cy Young award in 2019

Started 34 games won 21, 223 innings pitched

[Jolly]

Most starters today, only pitch five or six innings.

[LuFins Dad]

@jolly said in Baseball: Change the rules:

Most starters today, only pitch five or six innings.

And still have Tommy John’s Surgery before they are 25…

[LuFins Dad]

Before I added a clock for the pitcher, I’d require any relief pitcher to have to pitch to three batters at least… The biggest delay in baseball today are the pitching changes… Managers will take out their starter, bring in a reliever that warms up for 5 minutes, pitches to one batter, then they pull him and bring in another reliever who proceeds to warm up for another 5 minutes. It’s absurd and overly specialized.

Oh, and get rid of the DH!

And at least 8 members of a football team need to be required to play both sides of the ball! And no more specialists as kicker or punter!

[Catseye3]

Separate but related:

"The Indiana Jones of baseball without the coordination."

Fan Takes Mighty Spill Trying to Catch Matt Olson Dinger. This certainly could have been worse. Any time spent tumbling wildly down to concrete is not advisable. If all's good though, there are worst things to be known for than giving it 110 percent for a dinger-related artifacts.

More, incl video: https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/fan-takes-mighty-spill-trying-to-catch-matt-olson-dinger-01faemmdf12c?utm_source=RSS

[Jolly]

@lufins-dad said in Baseball: Change the rules:

@jolly said in Baseball: Change the rules:

Most starters today, only pitch five or six innings.

And still have Tommy John’s Surgery before they are 25…

But a lot of that is because of how players are developed today. Remember Big Ben, who pitched at LSU? Ben's dad was absolutely maniacal about making his son into a major league player and that kid must have played baseball year-round as a young kid and even when he was in high school at Gonzales.

That used to be unusual. Now, it's commonplace. And kids on the travel teams are playing at a higher level of competition.

It's no wonder their arms have major problems at 25...

[Copper]

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