The Bastardization of Baseball

HammerDown said:
I used to love seeing pitchers who could hit doing things like fouling tons of balls off, forcing the opposing pitcher to raise their pitch count late in a game. There's sooo much strategy to having the pitcher batting in the 9-hole.
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This was awesome. A terrible hitting pitcher against the hottest pitcher in the league.
 
fordman84 said:
I'm a fan of small ball, I was talking more about the strategy of putting in a pitcher then a pinch hitter is sent up so switching a pitcher, then 8 mound visits with the catcher, 1 with the pitching coach, one with the HC, then finally a batter gets an AB.
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Wasn't something done a year or so ago to reduce mound visits and/or time? I could be wrong.
 
fordman84 said:
The three batter minimum rule is also taking a lot of strategy out but could counteract a lot of that longer games for pitching changes. Playoffs a few years ago was unwatchable with "strategy".
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Takes strategy out but adds new strategy because you need to take into account who comes up next and what happens if you bring in a guy with two outs to face somebody and they don't get him out. Take it or leave it with this rule for me.
 
PackJason said:
Wanting to take strategy out of the game is for casual fans who only like to see balls fly over their heads.

The DH just means that pitchers aren't baseball players.

Fuck it.
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And this is why we're doomed to see the DH: MLB wants to see newer fans, and they think the right way to attract them is with pitchers blazing fastballs for strikeouts and hitters swinging for 500 ft. home runs.

Don't forget the dark side of the DH too- players who are clearly past it and unable to take the field, even for an inning, will now have unnatural longevity. Teams will delay bringing up skilled utility infielders from the minors, if it means that fatasses like Pablo Sandoval and Edwin Encarnacion get get 3-4 more ABs per game.
 
Mofo said:
And this is why we're doomed to see the DH: MLB wants to see newer fans, and they think the right way to attract them is with pitchers blazing fastballs for strikeouts and hitters swinging for 500 ft. home runs.

Don't forget the dark side of the DH too- players who are clearly past it and unable to take the field, even for an inning, will now have unnatural longevity. Teams will delay bringing up skilled utility infielders from the minors, if it means that fatasses like Pablo Sandoval and Edwin Encarnacion get get 3-4 more ABs per game.
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Yup, that was my point earlier. It keeps high priced guys in the league and gets rid of younger players who would be cheaper. The union is all about this.

I keep waiting to hear that MLB will allow aluminum bats in the All star game, or some gimmick like that.
 
fordman84 said:
Yup, that was my point earlier. It keeps high priced guys in the league and gets rid of younger players who would be cheaper. The union is all about this.

I keep waiting to hear that MLB will allow aluminum bats in the All star game, or some gimmick like that.
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I'd be surprised to see that happen. Especially full time. HR records would be shattered.
 
fordman84 said:
Yup, that was my point earlier. It keeps high priced guys in the league and gets rid of younger players who would be cheaper. The union is all about this.
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Union's a bunch of assholes. They would have every game played at 3:00 PM and be 5 innings long if they could get away with it.
fordman84 said:
I keep waiting to hear that MLB will allow aluminum bats in the All star game, or some gimmick like that.
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Remember years ago when Sammy Sosa was caught using a corked bat? He claimed that it was a "for warm-ups" bat that had been inadvertently switched. It was a ridiculous fake story, on par with Manny Ramirez getting caught using a woman's fertility drug (as a steroid masking agent) and claiming was because he was trying to have children.

Your scenario seems too likely not to happen.
 
Gaylord Perry once said "they will put a man on the moon before I hit a home run."

And it was true. They did put a man on the moon before Perry hit his first major league home run.

The crazy thing is.....

both events happened on the same day. Mere minutes apart!
 
PackJason said:
Inside the park homeruns are the most exciting play in baseball.

Always will be.

Runner-up, stealing home. Runner-Runner-up, Suicide squeeze.
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All three used to possibly include a train wreck at home, but no more thanks to Buster Posey being a brittle bitch.

Fuck Reuben Tejada too while we’re at it
 
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