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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS
I would LOVE to see that pick-off limitation rule come to fruition. Bill James compared a rule such as this (that he advocated decades ago) to four balls - a 'sooner or later you need to actually do something because we're trying to sell a product here" rule.
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Yeah, I go back to a time when you would hear the home crowd start rumbling on an opponent's first pickoff attempt - especially if it was just a half-hearted toss - followed by a roar on the second attempt. The third time and therafter, forget about it.