Pitchers can be removed when the inning is over as well.
Pitchers can be removed when the inning is over as well.
JohnAdcox (07-10-2019)
I'm not a guy who will rag on Jerry Blevins--who has been one of the better LOOGYs in the game during his career--but I hope he saved all his money.
Stealing 1st base? Ummm, is this really necessary? Would certainly affect pitchers with strong curves / sliders bouncing in the dirt. Knuckleballers (are there any left?) would be susceptible. Bad defensive catchers would stand out even more.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb...cid=spartanntp
Could be interesting, actually. Right now, there’s no real penalty for throwing a wild pitch with no men on base. This would change that. Might encourage pitchers to stop trying to overthrow everything.
This wouldn’t, however, suddenly make speedy, light bat players suddenly valuable like the article suggests.
Jaw (07-10-2019)
Presumably, this means that not only can the runners on base move up, but the batter as well. Wacky.
Trying to punish the pitchers every which way is dumb. They are doing their best to counter the "juiced" ball and are being punished. Have to face 3 batters, and even the batter moving to 1st on a WP??? Put all that on top of moving the mound back 2 feet and pitchers are definitely being given the short end of the stick. Moving the rubber back 2 feet to counter hard throwers won't effect them but will effect guys like Soroka who throw sharp breaking balls.
More crap from Manfred and Clark. Next will be a DH for a weak hitting position/glove first guy. Or a dedicated runner for the likes of McCann.
Grains of salt, etc
Van Wagenen had another meeting with the entire Mets coaching staff...no chairs were thrown but he demanded the team start winning
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Should be easy with all that surplus value they got in the Cano/Diaz deal.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
Swarzak to be activated today. Who goes down remains a question.
Grant Dayton to IL with broken toe is the move for Swarzak being activated.