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So let's say a starter is taken out mid-inning and the pitchers spot is up next, is that an exemption to the rule? What about after the reliever hits his three batters but it's mid-inning?
Reliever goes 0.1 innings by getting one batter out and is due up, then what? Or would batters from his team count.Well according to 3 batter minimum he can be switched out, it did not say full inning, it says 3 batters.
The rule, as I understand it, is qualified by "in the same inning". So this wouldn't matter, per se.
So let's say a starter is taken out mid-inning and the pitchers spot is up next, is that an exemption to the rule? What about after the reliever hits his three batters but it's mid-inning?
The rule, as I understand it, is qualified by "in the same inning". So this wouldn't matter, per se.
https://nypost.com/2019/02/06/the-tweaks-and-radical-changes-baseball-is-finally-discussing/
1. Forcing pitchers to face at least three batters within an inning. The union recommended implementing it in the minors in 2019 and the majors in 2020.
Reliever goes 0.1 innings by getting one batter out and is due up, then what? Or would batters from his team count.
Good. Fuck Gabe Kapler and his 20 man bullpen in September.
If you can't get hitters out from both sides of the plate, you don't belong in the Majors. I've long been wanting the lefty/righty specialist to get phazed out of the game.
Maybe this will be a bit of an incentive to stop babying starters and letting them pitch deeper.
Only way starters will quick getting babied is if they all start taking massive paycuts.