https://www.yahoo.com/sports/mlb-makes-it-official-the-threebatter-minimum-rule-is-here-212819166.html

Well, I might not win any friends here, but I support it. Constant pitching changes are a bad thing. I think the limit of 13 pitchers is good too, I would have preferred to see 12, but okay, a step in the right direction.

Still need limits on commerials, more late day games instead of night games especially on weekends and the postseason so kids can actually know there is a thing called baseball, and maybe requiring the batter to stay in the batter's box from the first pitch on. I don't want clocks in baseball.

Run the bases with the body armor ye wear to the plate! No handing equipment to the base coaches!

Partially agree. NO CLOCKS!! Not in baseball.

I also have no problem with limiting the total amount of available pitchers.
BUT, I don't LIKE (at ALL!) the 3 batter rule.
That's stupid and unnessessary.

Pitching changes are a manager's call. It's one of the most critical (and hardest) decisions the manager makes.
Most managers (IMO) are about 1 batter late. Bob Melvin always was 2 batters late in Seattle!!
The idea SHOULD be to remove the arm BE-4 the HR, not after!! Melvin could never figure that, same with AJ Hinch when in AZ.
Course HE don't have to worry much about that now.

The answer to the frequent pitching changes is in the hands of the batters. It's called effective use of the bat. AND that may require some 1st hand knowledge of the arm you face. When hitters start to "hammer" the 1st hittable pitch they get from the new reliever (because they effectively prepared!) then managers will be slower to just change relievers seeking an advantage. Balance always returns to the game IF we just allow it the time to adjust.

The 3 batter rule just means that 10 - 15 pitch specialists will be fazed out in favor of spot starter type arms and guys like Archie Bradley of the D'Backs who have (or could be) been starters but work more effectively out of the B-pen.

Pitching changes are my opportunity to ****, or re-beer up!

I hate the pitcher limit. What do we need 5 bench guys for? So they can sit around all week with their thumb up their ***?

A relief pitcher gives up two consecutive upper deck blasts and the manager has to say “let’s let him give up one more than we can get him out of there”...

mop-up

RP comes in, first pitch is hit to SS for a routine groundout. Ok let’s go to the pen. Waste more time. Go to commercials.

Valid point Winnetka, but LewB's post tops it!! IMO.

I haven't been following this stuff too closely, but I was curious. Can a pitcher still get the heave-ho for arguing balls and strikes with an ump? How about for calling the ump's mother a filthy name? What's MLB's contingency plan for a pitcher trying to get tossed after facing one batter?

I'd do an automatic 3 game suspension, no roster replacement

I'd just not worry about making the Game fast enough to capture the boneheads who don't enjoy baseball as it is.
That course will do the same for Baseball as it has for football.
Render it a boring shell of the game it USED to be.
Folks don't even watch football anymore!!
They're too busy trying to figure out their fantasy points total.

Our society just continues to reduce itself to the miscreants and the nincompoops level.
The patients have taken over control of the Hospital as it were and they're slowly killing us all off!
Starting with our brains!
many have already rotted.

Posted by crazystengel on 2/14/2020 12:15:00 PM (view original):
I haven't been following this stuff too closely, but I was curious. Can a pitcher still get the heave-ho for arguing balls and strikes with an ump? How about for calling the ump's mother a filthy name? What's MLB's contingency plan for a pitcher trying to get tossed after facing one batter?

You have a devious mind crazystengel ! Maybe you can manage the Red Sox.

Posted by bronxcheer on 2/13/2020 4:14:00 PM (view original):
Run the bases with the body armor ye wear to the plate! No handing equipment to the base coaches!

yessir

nail some goddam altuves to the cross

hang em high

bust their fibula

in the name of mercy

Why on Earth do they need to speed up a baseball game?

People watch frickin' golf on TV.

Hire a commissioner with a clue. Leave the game alone. It ain't broke.