(11-09-2018 02:33 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(11-08-2018 01:40 PM)stever20 Wrote:  saw from Nightengale:
The competition rules committee meets next week with Commissioner Rob Manfred on recommendations for next year involving pitch clocks, shifts and the use of openers

Will be really interesting to see what comes out of it.

What is that again?

Openers refers to the use of a "starter" who is really a reliever mean to face only a few (or maybe even just 1!) batters. Could be followed by a "starter-ish" pitcher, or more relievers. I assume they're going to distinguish between "bullpenning" and "openers" and get into stever's desire to place restrictions on starting pitchers (i.e. minimum number of pitches or batters) but I really hope not. I think this works itself out, and I hate the addition of more rules. Which segues into...

Shifts: Ugh. Are they going to make baseball look like volleyball now, where players have to stay in their zone? That's just b.s. How about we let teams find/cultivate hitters that can hit to all fields?