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Just saw something else that was new on MLB Network. So i get 26 man rosters but would that extra player most likely be a reliever?
Also said teams must carry 28 players after September 1st. So no more 40 man rosters after September 1st? So team only get to call up 2 more players? i think i am misunderstanding it.
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What it doesn't say if the 40 man will still exist as something else? I mean teams still need to protect against rule 5 draft. So perhaps something like 26 man roster, 28 man expanded roster, and still 40 man protected roster. |
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I know some teams are going 13 pitchers this year. I wonder with 26 next year will anyone go 14 pitchers? And basically have 9 RP that can go 1 inning 4-5 times a week. I know Reds are doing the utility player/relief pitcher thing this year. Not sure how common that can be. But it might catch on. I mean many star High School players are often the starting pitcher, SS or CF or 2B too. Only thing I really don't like is the 3 batter minimum because it was the commissioner officer circumventing the CBA with special commish powers. And its only for time saving. 1 or 2 batter pitchers are already at an all time low. |
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Of the new rules, most of them are neither here nor there for me (All-star voting, Home Run Derby, Inning breaks (though I won't mind watching fewer commercials), 15-day IL, even the Trade deadline). However, there are three rule changes that I think are detrimental to the game:
1) Limiting mound visits. I was against this when it started, and I'm still against it. Limiting visits to the mound is ridiculous unless you're going to give players earpieces and mics (which isn't a bad idea, and it seems to work well enough in Spring Training for broadcasts). 2) Active Roster Provisions: I lump these together because MLB did, but they are not all equal. There is nothing wrong with an expansion to 26-man rosters, and I think that actually helps the game - more players means more ML jobs and better-rested players, which helps limit injuries and end-of-season exhaustion. However, decreasing the September rosters actually does hurt the game, because it limits the number of prospects or fringe players who get perhaps their one shot at the big leagues. On top of that, limiting the number of pitchers a team can carry, then forcing teams to designate players as pitchers or position players, is just dumb. What exactly is the point here? 3) Three-batter minimum: This is the worst. It actually might make me lose some interest in watching baseball, especially if it succeeds in making the pace of play faster. Baseball is supposed to be a slower game. It's a pastime, a game you can watch with your family and actually have a conversation without having to be glued to a screen for three hours. On top of that, it takes away jobs from those specialists who are lefty or righty specialists - no team is going to carry somebody like that if they can't be used in that role. Finally, it decreases the manager's role in the game by removing from him options. Baseball works just fine the way it is. I wish Manfred would quit fooling with it. Wouldn't mind him being replaced as commissioner, either. It's not like he's done anything good while he's been in office. Just my two cents. |
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2) What about picking up wherever a team left off last inning in extras? For example, if a team gets their 3rd out with a man on first, they start their next ABs with that guy back on first. Always starting with a man on first is dumb because the away team could go 4 ABs getting him to third and then nothing, meanwhile the home team could strike out 11 straight times and then walk it off on the 12th AB and win. Quote:
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Ohtani wont be able to be a 2-way player, since he's not pitching this year.
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26 man is fine because of extra innings but 40 is still needed in September for lots of reasons.
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Can't wait to see you guys implement "faking injury" ratings.
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It’s not needed...and it upends the competitive balance of the league. Some teams are tanking a treating September as a “second spring training” while other teams are in a serious pennant race. |
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Then in September, the taxi squad can still rise to 40, but you still have the same 20 or 22 active per game. More guys means you don't have to worry about tired arms any game, but both sides are at least always playing with an equal number of players, and the actual rules of the game don't change at any point in the season. |
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The change no one has discussed here yet is the one resulting in pitchers having to spend 15 days in the minors on option before they can be recalled whereas position players will continue to have a 10-day limit. That's an interesting change, given how it interacts with the provision in the CBA which states any player spending less than 20 days on option during a season isn't charged an option.
Two full stints on option under the 10-day limit means the player will expend an option year. But now there is a 15-day limit. The math of that does not coincide well with the CBA provision. I wonder if perhaps the minimum number of days to expend an option will be raised for pitchers to less than 30 days. Quote:
For a very long time it has been 25 players on the active roster and 15 on option to the minors. Now that ratio is changing to 26 and 14. That's one less player on option to develop. I wonder if there'll be discussions to increase the reserve limit to 41 so as to allow 15 players on option again. |
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You're not going to get millennials to watch by cutting a minute here and a minute there. The only sports I know of getting growth due to millennials are soccer and MMA. Football is even losing viewers.
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The Angels will designate him as a pitcher in 2020, which would allow him to DH or play a position when he isn't on the mound.
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