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  • Pitcher Who Warms Up Must Face At Least One Hitter: A pitcher who is sent out to warm up for an inning must face at least one batter (in addition to any requirements under the Three-Batter Minimum rule). There were 24 instances this season where the pitcher that warmed up between innings was replaced before throwing a pitch (adding approximately three minutes of dead time per event). There were two such instances during the 2023 World Series.

This seems excessive to me.

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49 minutes ago, Tnetennba said:
  • Pitcher Who Warms Up Must Face At Least One Hitter: A pitcher who is sent out to warm up for an inning must face at least one batter (in addition to any requirements under the Three-Batter Minimum rule). There were 24 instances this season where the pitcher that warmed up between innings was replaced before throwing a pitch (adding approximately three minutes of dead time per event). There were two such instances during the 2023 World Series.

This seems excessive to me.

Why, I love it. it's dumb a team will throw a guy out there to warm up, to just pull him after.  

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1 hour ago, Tnetennba said:
  • Pitcher Who Warms Up Must Face At Least One Hitter: A pitcher who is sent out to warm up for an inning must face at least one batter (in addition to any requirements under the Three-Batter Minimum rule). There were 24 instances this season where the pitcher that warmed up between innings was replaced before throwing a pitch (adding approximately three minutes of dead time per event). There were two such instances during the 2023 World Series.

This seems excessive to me.

When I first read the rule, I thought it was referring to pitchers warming up in the bullpen, which would be crazy.  This makes more sense, but a rule to address something that only happened a few times (compared to the number of games played) seems strange.

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1 hour ago, hogan873 said:

When I first read the rule, I thought it was referring to pitchers warming up in the bullpen, which would be crazy.  This makes more sense, but a rule to address something that only happened a few times (compared to the number of games played) seems strange.

Can you imagine? ? You start warming both a RHP and LHP to potentially relieve your starter depending on how the inning goes, and now they both have to come in.

The first guy in HAS to face three batters because he's NOT allowed to get the third out.

Do inning ending outs just get waved off because the inning can't end until the second RP comes in? Intentional walks to meet the minimum, and then you just hope the second guy in can wiggle out of it? 

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1 hour ago, hogan873 said:

When I first read the rule, I thought it was referring to pitchers warming up in the bullpen, which would be crazy.  This makes more sense, but a rule to address something that only happened a few times (compared to the number of games played) seems strange.

While it's minor, it's an unnecessary waste of time and frankly a waste of effort on a pitcher's arm. Managers do it to either buy other guys time to warm up or to do gamesmanship things - oh you gotta have your guy announced first so I will send my guy out to fool you. It becomes a time waster coming right out of a commercial break, everything comes back, is ready to go, then oh here's another 3 minute delay. Especially if it happened at all during the playoffs, let's just get rid of it, it's unnecessary and serves no benefit to having a better game and makes it worse for TV. Put the pitcher out there to warm up who is actually going to pitch, come back from the break, and play baseball.

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13 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

While it's minor, it's an unnecessary waste of time and frankly a waste of effort on a pitcher's arm. Managers do it to either buy other guys time to warm up or to do gamesmanship things - oh you gotta have your guy announced first so I will send my guy out to fool you. It becomes a time waster coming right out of a commercial break, everything comes back, is ready to go, then oh here's another 3 minute delay. Especially if it happened at all during the playoffs, let's just get rid of it, it's unnecessary and serves no benefit to having a better game and makes it worse for TV. Put the pitcher out there to warm up who is actually going to pitch, come back from the break, and play baseball.

I agree. It serves no purpose so stop the managers. It doesn't happen often but who knows if someone starts it as a "competitive advantage" 

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3 hours ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

Why, I love it. it's dumb a team will throw a guy out there to warm up, to just pull him after.  

 

2 hours ago, hogan873 said:

When I first read the rule, I thought it was referring to pitchers warming up in the bullpen, which would be crazy.  This makes more sense, but a rule to address something that only happened a few times (compared to the number of games played) seems strange.

This is how I interpreted it too, hence my comment. A pitcher warming up on the mound for an inning makes way more sense. I can see the logic behind the change, even if it happened far too infrequently to require a rule change IMO.

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2 hours ago, Balta1701 said:

While it's minor, it's an unnecessary waste of time and frankly a waste of effort on a pitcher's arm. Managers do it to either buy other guys time to warm up or to do gamesmanship things - oh you gotta have your guy announced first so I will send my guy out to fool you. It becomes a time waster coming right out of a commercial break, everything comes back, is ready to go, then oh here's another 3 minute delay. Especially if it happened at all during the playoffs, let's just get rid of it, it's unnecessary and serves no benefit to having a better game and makes it worse for TV. Put the pitcher out there to warm up who is actually going to pitch, come back from the break, and play baseball.

I think the players support this rule change, but there was no need to make the other changes the players objected to. There should only be rule changes made within each CBA agreement, or when there is consensus agreement between players and owners.

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