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MLB 2022: Playing Ball, But Is Anyone Still Watching?

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Kepler said:
Are you sure about this? I always thought if the pitcher was removed the team lost their DH, even if it was the same guy.
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https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-mlbpa-a...ei-ohtani-rule

"The proposed new rule says that if the starting pitcher is also in the lineup as the DH, then that player can remain as the DH even if he is removed as a pitcher."

Additional changes:
- 2 extra roster players for April
- Runner on 2nd to start extra innings for all of 2022 only.
 
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Kepler said:
Oh. An Ohtani Rule. I think it is fair.
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I can see the Brewers taking advantage of that one as well.


Also, booooooo to bringing back the extra innings runner on second. MLB Network heard it may have been implemented starting with the 12th inning which I like better. But oh well.
 
aparch said:
I can see the Brewers taking advantage of that one as well.


Also, booooooo to bringing back the extra innings runner on second. MLB Network heard it may have been implemented starting with the 12th inning which I like better. But oh well.
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That would be a good compromise.
 
I would rather have a game end in a tie after the tenth inning than have a runner on second to start an inning.
 
French Rage said:
Uggh, then they should have stopped at two WC teams. That made sense. If you don't win your division, you have to play the extra game. One WC team didn't punish the WC team enough, more than 2 punishes division winners. How hard was this to understand?
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Yeah, 2 WC is probably the best option. It's manfried. If it can be fucked, it will be.
 
Bronco said:
I would rather have a game end in a tie after the tenth inning than have a runner on second to start an inning.
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Yeah, I don't get America's borderline neurotic avoidance of ties. We invent so many rube-goldberg-assmode reindeer games just to avoid a tie.
 
Kepler said:
Are you sure about this? I always thought if the pitcher was removed the team lost their DH, even if it was the same guy.
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You're thinking of the "Double Hook" rule that was one of the test rules in the South Atlantic (?) league... That was where the DH was yanked when the starter was removed and reliever's hit for themselves....

MLB will allow the pitcher to continue hitting... This is basically Othani and that's it... Everyone else will use the DH traditionally 99% of the time.
 
The new DH rule is pretty much the Player/DH rule that high school has had for a couple years. Odd seeing a rule move up the chain. Although with shortened DHs and the international tiebreaker in extra innings I guess that’s becoming more common in baseball.

In the other sports it almost always goes pro > college > high school.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
The new DH rule is pretty much the Player/DH rule that high school has had for a couple years. Odd seeing a rule move up the chain. Although with shortened DHs and the international tiebreaker in extra innings I guess that’s becoming more common in baseball.

In the other sports it almost always goes pro > college > high school.
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A Player DH-ing for themselves has been a thing in college for years. It's always a stud athlete who pitches, but has a fragile arm and/or ZERO control at times.
 
Literally like three days ago:
Adams: I will not cave the vaccination mandate for workers in NYC.

Yesterday:
Adams: I have caved and allowed exceptions for professional athletes and performers.

So, Yankees and Mets can breathe a little. But the mandate still applies for games in Toronto. Some are complaining it’s an advantage for the Jays, but they’re technically at a disadvantage because it applies to half their games instead of 3-10. They just happen to be super cool and 100% vaxxed so they’re good for all 162.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Literally like three days ago:
Adams: I will not cave the vaccination mandate for workers in NYC.

Yesterday:
Adams: I have caved and allowed exceptions for professional athletes and performers.

So, Yankees and Mets can breathe a little.
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God, this is so dumb. I would absolutely have been willing to have every non-vaxxed Met lose all that money, and the Mets lose those games, just for a teachable moment.

But nope. Superstition > science and greed > both.
 
RaceBoarder said:
A Player DH-ing for themselves has been a thing in college for years. It's always a stud athlete who pitches, but has a fragile arm and/or ZERO control at times.
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*Says an umpire who’s undoubtedly been beaned by said pitcher*

;-)
 
Quiz time: Name the only two righthanded batters to win an American League batting title between 1960-1980. (I got neither)
 
SonofSouthie said:
Quiz time: Name the only two righthanded batters to win an American League batting title between 1960-1980. (I got neither)
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Frank Robinson 1966; Alex Johnson 1970. In 1970 Johnson beat out Yaz for the title hitting .3289 to 3286. In the last game of the season for the Angels Johnson went 2 for 3 beating out a high hop infield single in the 5th inning and was sat down after that. Yaz's season ended the day before.
 
Not sure I've ever seen this before. In the 7th inning of their game today the Mets swapped out all 9 players in their lineup, but the pitcher (Scherzer) stayed the same.
 
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