It's the spring training moment you’ve all been waiting for. Pitchers. Catchers. And, last but definitely not least … The s— show. With dramatic rule changes coming to MLB, we'll let jaysonst take it from here:
The s— showPeople in big-league front offices used it. Even people inside the commissioner’s office seemed to drop it way more casually than you’d expect. And why is that?shift bans! … pitch clocks! … pickoff limits! … larger bases that shrink the distance between first and second!
Hitters … pitchers … umpires … managers … even you and your family, sitting in the upper deck … you’re all going to need to reprogram your brains once these rules enter your lives. And won’t that make for an entertaining baseball experience? Some of it will be highly entertaining. Some of it will feel highly outrageous. Does that sound like a s— show to you?
So does this sport really need a phase-in period? That would seem to only postpone the inevitable. Or maybe baseball already had that phase-in period. It’s called “the offseason” — as in: “They had a whole offseason to get ready for this stuff.”How will base runners, such as the Guardians’ Steven Kwan, test pitchers?
Managers, coaches and front offices report that they’ve tried to get their pitchers thinking about this for weeks now. But good luck to them. Think about veteran pitchers, who have spent all their lives stepping off every time they had an issue with a catcher or just needed to hit the reset button. Now there are real-life consequences for doing that. And that’s a huge deal.That’s not merely a habit.
At least, somewhere over the horizon, a couple of months into the season, everyone will have figured it all out … and games will be zipping along in a beautiful, eminently watchable rhythm … and nobody will miss those bad old days. But first, this spring, there is s—-show potential.
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