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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, February 18, 2013Morosi: Showalter balks at new pickoff ruleBuck: The Balk Call of the Wild.
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1. What did Billy Ripken have against ElRoy Face? Posted: February 18, 2013 at 10:45 AM (#4371304)What the hell does this mean?
EDIT: As Mr. Deal has pointed out, I am honored to have unwittingly borrowed from Calvin.
Verbing weirds language.
Calvin link
He's saying that the now-balkable move was the best way to keep baserunners in check from stealing in first and third situations. He's suggesting that it's going to be like Little League where with first and third, you almost concede the stolen second base bag to the baserunner at first.
I don't know if that's true, but that's his argument.
Great, now Ben Revere is even less valuable.
Or, you know, just throw pickoffs to first...
I'm probably the biggest opponent to this rule change you're going to find, and I think he's out of his mind. Pitchers will step off a few more times. They'll throw over a few times. There's no reason to think allowing the fake-to-third, throw-to-first move was anchoring guys to first.
Sums it up for me.
Just because the optimal strategy has been get on base and hit the homerun, doesn't mean that is the best way to keep fans interested in the game. Anything that helps improve the fan experience by making you watch more that is going on is a good thing.
Of course I love the running game growing up with Whitey Ball.
It means that according to Buck, people are going to steal more often and that the running game is going to come back into style and if your team can't defend against the run, you are going to be behind the times and struggle against other teams that are ready to take advantage of the changes in the game.
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