Auto-Suspension for hitting a guy in the head?

[richig07]

Maybe suspend a SP for 9 games

Suspend him for longer than Gary Sanchez gets for throwing a blind siding punch at a player who is laying defenseless on the ground. Great ideaa!

Just delete this thread. lol

 

[Chewbaccer]

If you're facing a guy like Yu Darvish who has a notoriously slow and effective curve ball, but one of those borderline eephus pitches slips inside, what's to stop the batter from taking a soft pitch off the top of the helmet to get Darvish out of the game and into the bullpen?

 

[richig07]

I don't really like it.

How could anyone with a god damn brain in their head?

Let's scare the shit out of pitchers, so they fear throwing inside. Not to mention, the fact that the starting point on a lot of breaking pitches is thrown at the front shoulder (close to the head) of a right handed batter, by a right handed pitcher. So, you can forget that.

Let's make pitchers restructure the entire way they approach the game, because once or twice a year a guy gets beaned in the head on purpose!

Let's approach every hit by pitch as though it's intentional! Because ya know... a whole 1% of them are!

72 MPH breaking ball with the bases loaded and an 0-2 count? Nope! We don't care how obvious it is that it's not on purpose! See ya!