Posts Tagged ‘rule changes’

Let’s Ban the Opener$

The Running Game Has Been Fundamentally Changed$

The Year of the Balk$

Additional Rule Changes MLB Should Consider$

Baseball Therapy: New Year, New Rules – Part 2$

Moonshot: A Three-Step Plan to Fix Baseball’s Aesthetics$

Veteran Presence: The 2020 Rules Changes, Interim Report$

Short Relief: The Least True Outcome

1. The crows complaining from the maple tree outside the window sound enough like that one row of fans in Philadelphia in 2006, Mike Lieberthal at the plate in the second game of the September 3 double-header against Atlanta, the one that isn’t the one where Ryan Howard hit three home runs. Lieberthal stands in…

Breaking Balls: La Regle du jeu

Early last week, ESPN.com published a column by Jayson Stark that proposed 20 rules changes for MLB, ranging from the cosmetic (“Toughen up the save rule”) to the crazed (“But add the designated fielder”). Now, I’m not going to talk in particular about Stark’s column today, except to say that I think many of his suggestions sound good until you give serious consideration to how they would affect the way the game is played.