Apparently the Red Sox successfully shifted an OF’er on Joey Gallo yesterday. Guess they didn’t address this explicitly enough with the rule change.
4 in the OF with the 4th playing short right like in softball.
Posted 04 March 2023 - 02:54 PM
Apparently the Red Sox successfully shifted an OF’er on Joey Gallo yesterday. Guess they didn’t address this explicitly enough with the rule change.
Posted 04 March 2023 - 02:57 PM
“We have a shot at a wild card right now. But it is not a probability that we're going to win a wild card.” -2022 Trade Deadline
"It's liftoff from here" - after selling on 2022
"We're on a slight upward arc" - Winter Meetings 2022
"I think it's really hard to sit there and chart a course and say, 'We're likely to win the division.'" - Winter Meetings 2022
Mike Elias
Posted 04 March 2023 - 04:34 PM
Posted 04 March 2023 - 04:38 PM
Im assuming they vacated 3b and moved him to the OF deep position and moved the "OF" up into essentially where the deep shifted infielders were playing him in shallow RF. So the only difference is its an OF fielding the balls instead of an infielder. Lets make sure we get Vavra and Norby and maybe others the reps im the OF and call them OFers
Posted 04 March 2023 - 04:57 PM
Posted 04 March 2023 - 05:12 PM
So vacated LF. Prob a little more dangerous on most hitters. Gallo must be heavy pull on flyballs too. Listen, it doesnt change what a lot of us have said. The hitters need to adjust too. You dont have to be so pull happy.
Posted 04 March 2023 - 06:37 PM
Leave it to MLB to eff up a rule change. If you’re going to have a shift ban in place, that alignment needs to be illegal.
Otherwise, don’t make the change.
Posted 04 March 2023 - 10:24 PM
With the short LF/green monster, it might make a lot of sense for Boston to employ that kind of shift.
Posted 09 March 2023 - 08:21 PM
Leave it to MLB to eff up a rule change. If you’re going to have a shift ban in place, that alignment needs to be illegal.
Otherwise, don’t make the change.
Posted 20 March 2023 - 09:50 PM
The Athletic: MLB could tweak new rules before Opening Day
Paywalled, but no word on exactly what tweaks the competition committee might consider. Per the article, players and the union have brought up these concerns:
Posted 20 March 2023 - 11:32 PM
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The Athletic: MLB could tweak new rules before Opening Day
Paywalled, but no word on exactly what tweaks the competition committee might consider. Per the article, players and the union have brought up these concerns:
- That the 15-second pitch timer is too constricting with no one on base.
- That hitters should get slightly more time and shouldn’t need to be in the box and “alert to the pitcher” with eight seconds left on the timer.
- That players who are involved in a defensive play to end one half-inning should get extra time if they are leading off the next half-inning.
- That hitters should be allowed more than one timeout per plate appearance.
Posted 21 March 2023 - 03:12 AM
Yup. Good for them. Lets chill for the most part. Too drastic. Rein it in.<p>
The Athletic: MLB could tweak new rules before Opening Day
Paywalled, but no word on exactly what tweaks the competition committee might consider. Per the article, players and the union have brought up these concerns:
- That the 15-second pitch timer is too constricting with no one on base.
- That hitters should get slightly more time and shouldn’t need to be in the box and “alert to the pitcher” with eight seconds left on the timer.
- That players who are involved in a defensive play to end one half-inning should get extra time if they are leading off the next half-inning.
- That hitters should be allowed more than one timeout per plate appearance.
Posted 22 March 2023 - 12:32 PM
https://www.espn.com...rules-memo-says
• New standards will be enforced for bat boys and bat girls, whose ability to quickly retrieve equipment will help efforts to speed up the game, according to the memo. The league will evaluate the performances of bat boys and bat girls and could ask teams to replace them if their performance is considered substandard.
Is this really a major area of delays in the game? Seems kind of silly that they would single out bat boy/girls as an area where they can speed up the game.
Posted 22 March 2023 - 12:33 PM
Posted 22 March 2023 - 01:53 PM
Posted 22 March 2023 - 05:23 PM
https://www.espn.com...rules-memo-says
Is this really a major area of delays in the game? Seems kind of silly that they would single out bat boy/girls as an area where they can speed up the game.
Posted 30 March 2023 - 08:18 AM
I saw these rules helped shave off 26 minutes during ST.
This will come in handy especially vs Boston and NYY.
Posted 31 March 2023 - 12:01 PM
The Devers pitch clock strikeout was pretty funny.
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