On: Baseball’s Fight with Fatigue

[steverb]

Personally, I've always thought they should put a speed limit on pitching. These days watching baseball feels like watching two guys play catch.

[swores → steverb]

There actually already is a rule on this, the pitcher has to release the ball within 12 seconds of receiving the ball, as long as the batter is ready to receive the pitch. It's just never enforced. But there has been a lot of talk about possibly starting to enforce this rule, primarily using a visible clock/timer in games - though I think MLB were talking about changing from 12 to 20 seconds if they do start enforcing it.

[pokpokpok → steverb]

if you mean that you want them to nerf pitching, I think that the appropriate way to do that is to lower the mound

[bitsoda → pokpokpok]

I think he wants MLB to implement a timer between pitches, which already exists (it's 12 seconds), but is rarely enforced.

Source: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/pitcher_... (Rule 8.04)

[steverb → pokpokpok]

Yes, nerfing pitching was what I was thinking, and I think lowering the mound would be an excellent idea.

Not that MLB is listening to me. :-)