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  • #31
    Changes are official; per mlb.com (my bolding on things I found particularly significant):

    CHANGES EFFECTIVE IN 2019

    Inning breaks: Subject to discussions with broadcast partners, inning breaks will be reduced from 2:05 to 2:00 in local games and from 2:25 to 2:00 in national games. The Commissioner’s Office retains the right to further reduce the breaks to 1:55 in local and national games for the start of the 2020 season.

    Trade Deadline: The August waiver trade period will be eliminated. The July 31 Trade Deadline will be the only deadline. Players may still be placed and claimed on outright waivers after July 31, but trades will no longer be permitted after that date.

    All-Star Game: Fan voting will be conducted in two rounds -- a “primary round” that mirrors the All-Star voting of old, followed in late June or early July by an “Election Day” in which the top three vote-getters at each position in each league during the primaries will be voted on by fans in a prescribed time period to determine the All-Star starters.

    As far as the game itself is concerned, the 10th inning -- and all subsequent innings -- of All-Star Games that go into extra innings will begin with a runner on second base. A more detailed explanation of the All-Star changes can be found here.

    Home Run Derby: Total player prize money for the Home Run Derby will be increased to $2.5 million. The winner of the Home Run Derby will receive $1 million.

    Mound visits: The maximum number of mound visits per team will be reduced from six to five per game. MLB had instituted an initial mound-visit limitation prior to the 2018 season.

    Additionally, MLB and the MLBPA will form a joint committee to study other potential rule changes.

    CHANGES EFFECTIVE IN 2020

    Active roster provisions: The roster size from Opening Day through Aug. 31 will increase from 25 to 26 (with the minimum number of active players rising from 24 to 25, and roster sizes for doubleheaders rising from 26 to 27).

    The 40-man active roster for September will be eliminated. From Sept. 1 through the end of the regular season, all clubs will carry 28 players.

    Furthermore, the number of pitchers a club can carry on the active roster will be capped at a certain number, to be decided by the aforementioned joint committee. To adhere to that rule, clubs will have to designate each of their players as either a pitcher or a position player prior to each player’s first day on the active roster for a given season. That designation cannot change for the remainder of the season. Position players will not be allowed to pitch except in the following scenarios:

    • They are designated as a “Two-Way Player.” A player can only qualify for this designation if he accrues at least 20 Major League innings pitched and at least 20 Major League games started as a position player or designated hitter (with at least three plate appearances in each of those games) in either the current or the prior season.

    • Extra innings.

    • In any game in which his team is losing or winning by more than six runs when he enters as a pitcher.

    Three-batter minimum for pitchers: Rule 5.10(g) will be amended to require that starting pitchers and relief pitchers must pitch to either a minimum of three batters or to the end of a half-inning, with exceptions for incapacitating injury or illness. This will effectively end the so-called “LOOGY” (left-handed one-out guy) and other specialist roles in which pitchers are brought in for one very specific matchup.

    Injured list: The minimum time a player spends on the injured list will be increased back to 15 days from 10, and the minimum assignment period of pitchers who are optionally assigned to the minors will increase from 10 days to 15. MLB had reduced the minimum injured list period to 10 days prior to the 2017 season to reduce the incentive for teams to play shorthanded or for players having to play at less than full strength. However, teams manipulated the rule change to rotate relievers on and off their active rosters, thereby maintaining a full stash of rested arms, which resulted in more pitching changes.
    It certainly feels that way. But I'm distrustful of that feeling and am curious about evidence.

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    • #32
      The two-way player designation is confusing. Or at least I'm not seeing how it works.

      1) You have to designate a player prior to the first day they are on the active roster.
      2) If they had 20 IP and 20 GS as a hitter the previous year they can be designated as a 2 way player
      3) If they have 20 IP and 20 GS as a hitter the current year then they can also be a 2 way player.

      But how can any player accrue the requirements for (3) if they had to be designated before they were active in (1)?
      And how does a rookie come up as a 2 way player initially (i.e. McKay) since only mlb innings/GS are considered?

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Ken View Post
        The two-way player designation is confusing. Or at least I'm not seeing how it works.

        1) You have to designate a player prior to the first day they are on the active roster.
        2) If they had 20 IP and 20 GS as a hitter the previous year they can be designated as a 2 way player
        3) If they have 20 IP and 20 GS as a hitter the current year then they can also be a 2 way player.

        But how can any player accrue the requirements for (3) if they had to be designated before they were active in (1)?
        And how does a rookie come up as a 2 way player initially (i.e. McKay) since only mlb innings/GS are considered?
        That does seem dumb. And I read your interpretation as correct. Maybe they have to get their 20 innings in blowouts and extra inning games? If they go by what they did in the minors, that might help Mckay but not future Ohtanis who come over and go directly into MLB. And when Ohtani comes back, it's the same problem, how do make him a 2 way player again when he was previously not?

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        • #34
          Originally posted by joncarlos View Post
          That does seem dumb. And I read your interpretation as correct. Maybe they have to get their 20 innings in blowouts and extra inning games? If they go by what they did in the minors, that might help Mckay but not future Ohtanis who come over and go directly into MLB. And when Ohtani comes back, it's the same problem, how do make him a 2 way player again when he was previously not?
          I guess if there's any chance a player is a "pitcher", you designate them pitcher initially. And a pitcher can still be a hitter. So basically you call Ohtani or McKay a pitcher, and until he gets his first 20 games as a DH he's just considered pitcher. Then you can switch him to two way and you can bring up an extra pitcher if you prefer more pitchers.

          I'd assume that the original hitter/pitcher designation can be CHANGED to two way player mid season, even though it says "that designation cannot change for the remainder of the season", I guess it means you can't change them from pitcher to hitter or visa versa, but you have to be able to change them to two-way player or the in season numbers would not make any sense.

          They just need to clean up the wording some.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Ken View Post
            I guess if there's any chance a player is a "pitcher", you designate them pitcher initially. And a pitcher can still be a hitter. So basically you call Ohtani or McKay a pitcher, and until he gets his first 20 games as a DH he's just considered pitcher. Then you can switch him to two way and you can bring up an extra pitcher if you prefer more pitchers.

            I'd assume that the original hitter/pitcher designation can be CHANGED to two way player mid season, even though it says "that designation cannot change for the remainder of the season", I guess it means you can't change them from pitcher to hitter or visa versa, but you have to be able to change them to two-way player or the in season numbers would not make any sense.

            They just need to clean up the wording some.
            AH, ok, that totally makes sense. You can add hitter in season (presumably) and so you can still be a pitcher initially, because there's no Bumgarner rule that says pitchers can't hit or play the field.

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            • #36
              Highest BA w/ RISP since 2016 (active players, min. 50 AB)

              1. Charlie Culberson: .395
              2. MAX SCHERZER: .367
              3. Daniel Murphy: .362
              4. Nolan Arenado: .356
              finished 10th in this 37th yr in 11-team-only NL 5x5
              own picks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 in April 2022 1st-rd farmhand draft
              won in 2017 15 07 05 04 02 93 90 84

              SP SGray 16, TWalker 10, AWood 10, Price 3, KH Kim 2, Corbin 10
              RP Bednar 10, Bender 10, Graterol 2
              C Stallings 2, Casali 1
              1B Votto 10, 3B ERios 2, 1B Zimmerman 2, 2S Chisholm 5, 2B Hoerner 5, 2B Solano 2, 2B LGarcia 10, SS Gregorius 17
              OF Cain 14, Bader 1, Daza 1

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              • #37
                Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports that MLB's proposal includes the universal designated hitter not just for the 2020 season but the 2021 season, as well.

                The MLBPA has been in favor of a universal DH since it would add another high-paid job to many rosters, so they are likely to be fine with this part of the proposal. With the CBA set to expire after the 2021 campaign, it's possible we have seen the last of the pitcher batting altogether.
                “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

                ― Albert Einstein

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by madducks View Post
                  Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports that MLB's proposal includes the universal designated hitter not just for the 2020 season but the 2021 season, as well.

                  The MLBPA has been in favor of a universal DH since it would add another high-paid job to many rosters, so they are likely to be fine with this part of the proposal. With the CBA set to expire after the 2021 campaign, it's possible we have seen the last of the pitcher batting altogether.
                  This makes Ohtani sad...…..
                  If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011

                  Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
                  Martin Luther King, Jr.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by GwynnInTheHall View Post
                    This makes Ohtani sad...…..
                    Funny funny

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                    • #40
                      For this year only (until it's not), extra innings will begin with a runner on second base. If that runner scores it will count as an unearned run.
                      “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

                      ― Albert Einstein

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                      • #41
                        Jeff Passan of ESPN reports that Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have agreed to stage seven-inning doubleheaders starting Aug. 1.

                        This rule will be for the 2020 season only. It's a way to move forward with a 60-game schedule without overworking pitchers; a worry even with the expanded rosters. Expect the Marlins and Phillies to have several of these doubleheaders after their games were canceled due to a breakout of the COVID-19 virus in Miami last weekend.
                        “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

                        ― Albert Einstein

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                        • #42
                          In my points leagues, we get bonus points for CGs and CHSHOs. Shoulld be a lot more of those than expected now from those two teams...well, maybe not he Marlins, cuz their pitching sucks.

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