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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Timeouts (finally) coming to baseball!

?The Atlantic League, but that's a start.  I've been clamoring for nine timeouts per team for ANY reason (stepping out of the box, changing pitchers, mound conference, possible injury, etc).  Any extra is a "technical" and requires an automatic called ball or called strike on the batter as the case may be.  The Atlantic League is limiting it to 3 DEFENSIVE timeouts, with the penalty of called ball if they exceed it.  This is great!  Now, if they can enforce 6 OFFENSIVE timeouts, then I'd be very happy.

The courtesy runner for catchers is interesting.  Courtesy runners were more common in the "golden age".  I like the idea at least for experimentation.

IBB: automatically called. I like it, so at least we won't be subjected to its absurdity, of making everyone go through the motions.

Umpires asked to enforce a rule already in the book... as if only some rules are enforced!  That's the biggest silliness.  "We have a rule!"  "Nah, I won't enforce that one."  "Well, now we are specifically telling you that's not one of the rules you are allowed to ignore!"  I'd rather just go with defined timeouts.

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