If you are in the lead, you only get two outs. This will allow the team behind a greater opportunity to catch up (making the games more exciting) and will also prevent blow out games. It will also shorten the time of games.
Why don't they just spot the team that is trailing a couple of runs so that it's tied? The current system is unfairly tilted in favor of the team in the lead. It's not fair that a team shouldn't get a chance to win just because the other team has scored more runs.
Fans: “Games last too long because of all the commercials, and ticket prices are too high.”MLB: “Let’s take away outs.”Fans: “No, we want more baseball and less dead time.”MLB: “Runs are now florps.”Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Giving a team runs is very different than taking away outs. Yes, I know you are joking, but really that's obviously way different.
What if the proposal was if someone doesn't want to watch a blowout they change the channel?
Enter the "catch up" rule proposalhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/a-radical-pitch-to-save-baseball-1535562571?mod=trending_now_4
...much of the strategy is advised to keep the primary pitcher from facing the top of the lineup early and to be limited to two times through the order. The data shows starting pitchers have a higher ERA in the first inning and also have trouble with hitters a third time through an order.)
The Twins did this last night vs the Astros!The Twins started Sunday experimenting w/ an approach that might allow their starters go deeper in games - by letting them avoid the top opposing hitters until later in the game by using a reliever to "open" the game.Last night...May - the Opener - aimed to limit the damage by the Astros 1-6 hitters in 1 or 2 innings. (It did not work.)Stewart - the Primary pitcher - would start against the weakest hitters and go deeper into the game (5 innings so far) by facing the top hitters only twice. (It did work.)Explanation:https://www.mlb.com/news/twins-to-experiment-with-opener-strategy/c-292922934Of course, the A's started this and the clubs have been experimenting w/ it in the minors until now.
Working so far for the A's tonight, Yankees just got their first hit w/ 2 out in the 6th.
I thought Tampa Bay started it.
.......The notion of a “bullpen game,” by that point, was nothing new, and certainly not for a Rays club that used committees of relievers in the place of a traditional starter a handful of times in 2017 and regularly from the start of the 2018 campaign..........After trading away starters Chris Archer and Nate Eovaldi at the trade deadline, the Rays — who also lost promising young starters Jose De Leon and Brent Honeywell to season-ending injuries in spring training — call upon their bullpen for three games out of every five, with only Blake Snell and new addition Tyler Glasnow regularly working in something resembling a traditional starter’s capacity. In the clubhouse, the pitching tactics — and the associated pitching roles — once seen as curiosities have now become facts of life....
....It works, and as such, it only makes baseball better. While current trends in pitcher usage may rob us the chance to know which contemporary arm has the freakish durability of a Nolan Ryan, the move away from the traditional model is one borne of more information and bolder thinking. Guys who prove they can remain effective deep into games should always get opportunities to do that, but game plans like those the Rays used against Los Angeles represent smart ways to maximize a pitching staff in the absence of an available ace.....
