[Syd Thrift]

It still remains to be seen if the rule will be enforced in the regular season, let alone what its effect will be. I suspect that if it does have a large effect, which I doubt, we won’t see the effects of it until next year’s version just because there won’t be any data to parse. The same goes with the 3 throws to first rule, the larger bases, and to a large extent the shift rule (there the game can just not allow the most extreme shift but if it like pushes BABIP up by 30 points ( which it won’t but let’s pretend) there simply won’t be a way to predict that (indeed what we’ve seen from minor league data is that it caused BABIP to go up like 5 to 10 points at most).