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https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...gle-trade-deadline-expanded-rosters-and-more/

only 1 trade deadline now in MLB. No more waiver wire moves. People are pissed at this changes and the other ones proposed like a pitch clock and no DH. fans are saying Manfried is ruining baseball. Ouch.

 

He is... and quickly.

 

some changes are needed and some are not. this guy just seems to want to whitewash the history of the game and make it a new game. can't do that.

 

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...gle-trade-deadline-expanded-rosters-and-more/

more changes,. the AS thing is kind of lame. i don't see that fun at all ?

 

People like to vote for stuff on the internet. Page views and clicks = revenue. That's probably how they're going to fund the increased payouts for the players in the game and the HR derby, which is a great idea to encourage the best players to actually participate.

 

Rule changes coming this year and next...

CHANGES EFFECTIVE IN 2019

Inning breaks: Subject to discussions with broadcast partners, inning breaks will be reduced from 2:05 to 2:00 in local games and from 2:25 to 2:00 in national games. The Commissioner’s Office retains the right to further reduce the breaks to 1:55 in local and national games for the start of the 2020 season.

Trade Deadline: The waiver trade period will be eliminated. The July 31 Trade Deadline will be the only deadline. Players may still be placed and claimed on outright waivers after July 31, but trades will no longer be permitted after that date.

All-Star Game: Fan voting will be conducted in two rounds -- a “primary round” that mirrors the All-Star voting of old, followed in late June or early July by an “Election Day” in which the top three vote-getters at each position in each league during the primaries will be voted on by fans in a prescribed time period to determine the All-Star starters.

As far as the game itself is concerned, the 10th inning -- and all subsequent innings -- of All-Star Games that go into extra innings will begin with a runner on second base.

Home Run Derby: Total player prize money for the Home Run Derby will be increased to $2.5 million. The winner of the Home Run Derby will receive $1 million.

Mound visits: The maximum number of mound visits per team will be reduced from six to five per game. MLB had instituted an initial mound-visit limitation prior to the 2018 season.

Additionally, MLB and the MLBPA will form a joint committee to study other potential rule changes.

CHANGES EFFECTIVE IN 2020

Active roster provisions: The roster size from Opening Day through Aug. 31 will increase from 25 to 26 (with the minimum number of active players rising from 24 to 25, and roster sizes for doubleheaders rising from 26 to 27).

The 40-man active roster for September will be eliminated. From Sept. 1 through the end of the regular season, all clubs will carry 28 players.

Furthermore, the number of pitchers a club can carry on the active roster will be capped at a certain number, to be decided by the aforementioned joint committee. To adhere to that rule, clubs will have to designate each of their players as either a pitcher or a position player prior to each player’s first day on the active roster for a given season. That designation cannot change for the remainder of the season. Position players will not be allowed to pitch except in the following scenarios:

• They are designated as a “Two-Way Player.” A player can only qualify for this designation if he accrues at least 20 Major League innings pitched and at least 20 Major League games started as a position player or designated hitter (with at least three plate appearances in each of those games) in either the current or the prior season.

• Extra innings.

• In any game in which his team is losing or winning by more than six runs when he enters as a pitcher.

Three-batter minimum for pitchers: Rule 5.10(g) will be amended to require that starting pitchers and relief pitchers must pitch to either a minimum of three batters or to the end of a half-inning, with exceptions for incapacitating injury or illness. This will effectively end the so-called “LOOGY” (left-handed one-out guy) and other specialist roles in which pitchers are brought in for one very specific matchup.

Injured list: The minimum time a player spends on the injured list will be increased back to 15 days from 10, and the minimum assignment period of pitchers who are optionally assigned to the minors will increase from 10 days to 15. MLB had reduced the minimum injured list period to 10 days prior to the 2017 season to reduce the incentive for teams to play shorthanded or for players having to play at less than full strength. However, teams manipulated the rule change to rotate relievers on and off their active rosters, thereby maintaining a full stash of rested arms, which resulted in more pitching changes. (MLB.com)

 

Don't like that three batter minimum rule. Better change would've been to eliminate warm-up pitches for anyone entering a game in the middle of an inning, excepting in the case of an injury to the previous pitcher.

 

Exactly, I mean, what the hell were they doing in the Bullpen?

 

'Mean Girls' spoof...

 

Spring Batting leaders...

 

Spring Pitching leaders...

 

@JeffPassan

BREAKING: Star center fielder Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are finalizing a record-breaking 12-year contract worth more than $430 million, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN

 

hope he can win a WS in his career?

 

Its official... Mike Trout agrees to deal.

 

I have a new fishing friend, Trout.

 

I'll bet salmon is jealous.

 

Just if he swam up stream a little later.

 

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...my-john-surgery-will-miss-entire-2019-season/

bad news for Tigers ace Fulmer - TOMMY JOHN SURGERY. Sorry Will and Tigers nation.