I've been fine with the rule changes so far, though I'm still a bit indifferent on the ghost runner in extra innings. However, those new rules being tested have to be about the dumbest thing that has been put out there. I would absolutely hate the pinch runner rule, and is two disengagements really that much worse than one? And as mentioned above, if a pitcher gets injured or just doesn't have his stuff that day, to think a team would lose not just the DH for the rest of the game but also the player as well (which isn't explicitly stated, but I'm assuming), it would be absolutely dumb.
It’s like these leagues ask themselves “how can we make our sport more like the NBA” given the purchase basketball has among coveted younger consumers, and this is the gimmicky horseshit they come up with.
Canz we haz Yordan DH for the pitcher and Maldy or Meyers? Or maybe just whenever we want. The DH got nothing else to do anyway.
Scherzer just got tossed for having sticky stuff in his glove. pre-3rd inning Ump check, ump says "go change gloves"...so he does but is not happy. Dude comes out the next inning and they check him again...now he's really not happy and gets tossed for sticky stuff on this glove too (or for being argumentative, no idea at this point)
I'm not sure, like in the German situation, how umps can differentiate between legal rosin and illegal otherstuff. Pitchers *have* to be able to use something.
They were checking his hand after they saw/felt/whatever'd it on his glove. Rosin + sweat is tacky as ****, so again I don't know how they tell the difference.
Fully agree, which is why they should make something available for all pitchers and go with that. Too simple though
They do, iirc, it's called a "rosin bag" just like they've used for decades. But how does an ump doing a check on the field b/t innings tell the difference between what's legal and what's not? This is my point.
Juan Soto is massively struggling right now. He was perhaps the loudest critic of the pitch clock; obviously he used the lack of a pitch clock to his advantage…and now he will need to adjust. I’m sure he will improve, it’s still really early…but oh man, if he can’t adjust to the pitch clock, that trade could end up as one of the worst ever edit: aaaaaand of course he went 2-4 with a HR today. Still hitting under Mendoza line
Not sure what Kotsay's upset about, the batter took a long walk all around the foul territory and never called (ie asked the ump for) "time" or anything, so the clock's running...them's the rules now, right?
