Rob Manfred: still committed to being destroying baseball

[Auggie]

HOUSTON / 8-18-16 - Major League Baseball, alarmed by the game’s lack of action this season is considering making the most radical changes to the game in more than a century.

Commissioner Rob Manfred said that baseball is contemplating everything from altering the strike zone to limiting the number of pitching changes in a game, to curtailing the number of shifts, to even installing 20-second time clocks for pitchers.

If these changes are implemented, it would lead to perhaps the most radical rule changes since baseball reduced the number of balls to four in 1889 to constitute a walk. Certainly, it would have more impact than the American League installing the DH in 1973.

Anything and everything will be under review, Manfred said, in hopes of breathing life into offenses, providing more action, while also quickening the pace of games.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2016/08/18/mlb-rob-manfred-pitch-clock-reliever-limits-limiting-shifts/88960724/

He can have his fucking time clock, but limiting defensive shifts and relievers is a hundred times dumber than the DH.

[KamaAina]

1. Hey, I know! Let's let infielders tackle base runners!

[Brother Buzz]

3. Only if first basemen does it without an assist while maintaining the ball

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[Auggie]

4. Awesome play

[Iggo]

2. Nope. DH is still stupider.