MLB Considering making intentional walks automatic....

[KingEleven]

Thoughts on this?

Will it save time?

Do you care?

Are you a traditionalist that is very much against this?

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/r...nges-to-intentional-walk-and-the-strike-zone/

 

[KennyB]

I know in high school baseball they do it with the intentional walks where the manager signals an intentional walk and they don't have to throw the pitches but I like making the pitcher throw the balls. I have seen wild pitches and I once saw Miguel Cabrera crush a ball that was thrown too close to him.

 

[WorldNumberOne]

Long overdue..

 

[HarryCaray]

Don't really give a shit

 

[slapshot]

Stupid

 

[KingEleven]

I know in high school baseball they do it with the intentional walks where the manager signals an intentional walk and they don't have to throw the pitches but I like making the pitcher throw the balls. I have seen wild pitches and I once saw Miguel Cabrera crush a ball that was thrown too close to him.

I agree....if it was going to save significant time I may feel different but it won't.

 

[KingofNicotine]

I say no because there might be situations like this.

 

[CoachCB]

I know in high school baseball they do it with the intentional walks where the manager signals an intentional walk and they don't have to throw the pitches but I like making the pitcher throw the balls. I have seen wild pitches and I once saw Miguel Cabrera crush a ball that was thrown too close to him.

Agree. It's like the old NFL extra-points....you never know, there could be a fuck up somewhere along the way that could change the game - or a player could steal a base on a bad pitch...and the pitcher's pitch count adds up - even though he's not throwing all out on those 4 pitches, it's still 4 throws to the plate.

 

[Greenbacks]

Do you care?

Don't really give a shit.

 

[Ladeda]

Love the idea, long overdue. The odds of anything significant happening (wild pitch, a hit) are at least 100-1. Such a waste of time, it's a stupid outdated tradition.

 

[CoachCB]

Love the idea, long overdue. The odds of anything significant happening (wild pitch, a hit) are at least 100-1. Such a waste of time, it's a stupid outdated tradition.

Should a batter run all 4 bases when he hits a HR?

 

[tar_heel_in_sc]

If they really want to cut down on time, they need to limit the number of times per inning a catcher can go out to the mound to talk to his pitcher. As it stands now, there is no limit. I've seen at-bats where they've literally gone out there EVERY pitch to talk about what they're going to throw, etc.

 

[PatsFan1283]

Agree. It's like the old NFL extra-points....you never know, there could be a fuck up somewhere along the way that could change the game - or a player could steal a base on a bad pitch...and the pitcher's pitch count adds up - even though he's not throwing all out on those 4 pitches, it's still 4 throws to the plate.

No opinion on intentional walks but I'd absolutely like to see XP's abolished. Moving the kick back is the dumbest thing ever, for what? To make kickers a more important part of the game? Who really wants that? I'd want to see them have less to do with the final outcome, not more.

I'd rather it just be you get 1pt automatically unless you wanna go for 2.

 

[beefdiesel]

Awesome and do away with pitchers hitting in national league too, such an outdated rule too

 

[DrunkenHorseplayer]

They should impose auto IBB's and a 30 second pitch clock.

 

[CoolBreeze22]

If you wanted to do something radical I'd move to 4 outs per inning with the final inning(7th) being only 3 outs, thus eliminating the 8th and 9th innings.

 

[KingEleven]

If you wanted to do something radical I'd move to 4 outs per inning with the final inning(7th) being only 3 outs, thus eliminating the 8th and 9th innings.

that changes the game too much for no reason, IMO

 

[PatsFan1283]

Baseball tries to live off of its history more than any other sport, so it is tough to see major changes to the actual rules of the game. They don't want it to look radically different from how it has always looked.

 

[rolltide]

yeah i'd be all for that rules change.

also need a :20 pitch clock. young pitchers now have this in the minors so is far from a radical change. Right now it's :23 on average per pitch in MLB so knock off 5 seconds/pitch x 300 pitches saves the game nearly a half hour. easy change

 

[CoolBreeze22]

that changes the game too much for no reason, IMO

probably so, but maybe baseball needs something to increase interest. Scoring would go up although the game would still remain 27 outs. Strategically it would be interesting to see how the game is managed given such a dramatic change.