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Unlimited Substitutions in MLB

craig44craig44 Posts: 11,347 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The Golden at bat topic got me thinking. should MLB allow unlimited substitutions like in Basketball, football and hockey?

does anyone know why MLB was set up this way to begin with? would it make the game unwatchable with the constant subbing of pitching that I am sure would take place?

I don't think we can take anything off the table with Manfred at this point. very little would surprise me.

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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:
    The Golden at bat topic got me thinking. should MLB allow unlimited substitutions like in Basketball, football and hockey?

    does anyone know why MLB was set up this way to begin with? would it make the game unwatchable with the constant subbing of pitching that I am sure would take place?

    I don't think we can take anything off the table with Manfred at this point. very little would surprise me.

    Unless they are determined on a professional level, to destroy the best summer game ever invented.

  • Basebal21Basebal21 Posts: 3,631 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You destroy all the strategy with unlimited substitution. You just have a couple of sprinters you put in any time someone gets on base that isnt the fastest, remove your big hitters that arent the best defensively etc. Technically you could just take a Othani and keep subbing him in and out so he gets every single at bat in the game

    Wisconsin 2-6 against the SEC since 2007

  • pdoidoipdoidoi Posts: 668 ✭✭✭✭

    @Basebal21 said:
    You destroy all the strategy with unlimited substitution. You just have a couple of sprinters you put in any time someone gets on base that isnt the fastest, remove your big hitters that arent the best defensively etc. Technically you could just take a Othani and keep subbing him in and out so he gets every single at bat in the game

    That would be fun trying to keep up with stats, and all the records.

  • Basebal21Basebal21 Posts: 3,631 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pdoidoi said:

    @Basebal21 said:
    You destroy all the strategy with unlimited substitution. You just have a couple of sprinters you put in any time someone gets on base that isnt the fastest, remove your big hitters that arent the best defensively etc. Technically you could just take a Othani and keep subbing him in and out so he gets every single at bat in the game

    That would be fun trying to keep up with stats, and all the records.

    The score card would make War and Peace look short lol

    Wisconsin 2-6 against the SEC since 2007

  • bgrbgr Posts: 1,872 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember telling my friends this is where we were heading when they started that ridiculous Designated hitter rule.

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  • jay0791jay0791 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭✭

    Bring back baseball from the 1960's

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  • DocBenjaminDocBenjamin Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How bout, in a blowout game, any fan with a thousand bucks can pinch hit. With proper release forms, though.

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