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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1451647" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>The only thing there I couldn’t get behind is the player positioning rules. It’s not clear that it actually helps the defense. (Forward thinking clubs like the Cubs use the shift a lot less than other teams, while maintaining very high defensive numbers.) And having the shortstop just to the right of second base had been part of baseball for over a century. I think teams should be able to put their defenders wherever they want. </p><p></p><p>That said, everything else I agree with in general if not the exact particulars. Especially - and this can’t be emphasized enough - how the artificially depressed salaries for younger players are screwing up the entire market. </p><p></p><p>Your point on pace of play is completely right. It is about getting back to the way the game was played in the 70s and 80s more than coming up with something new. </p><p></p><p>There was an article that I can’t find anywhere that did a side-by-side comparison of two games with similar box scores. One was a Cubs-Mets game from 1985. And the other was a NL game from 2015. It was humorous, and fun because of the calls back to the 80s Cubs I grew up with. But it also emphasized how much the pace of play problem was pitchers holding the ball and batters stepping out of the box. Wish I could find that article...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1451647, member: 26283"] The only thing there I couldn’t get behind is the player positioning rules. It’s not clear that it actually helps the defense. (Forward thinking clubs like the Cubs use the shift a lot less than other teams, while maintaining very high defensive numbers.) And having the shortstop just to the right of second base had been part of baseball for over a century. I think teams should be able to put their defenders wherever they want. That said, everything else I agree with in general if not the exact particulars. Especially - and this can’t be emphasized enough - how the artificially depressed salaries for younger players are screwing up the entire market. Your point on pace of play is completely right. It is about getting back to the way the game was played in the 70s and 80s more than coming up with something new. There was an article that I can’t find anywhere that did a side-by-side comparison of two games with similar box scores. One was a Cubs-Mets game from 1985. And the other was a NL game from 2015. It was humorous, and fun because of the calls back to the 80s Cubs I grew up with. But it also emphasized how much the pace of play problem was pitchers holding the ball and batters stepping out of the box. Wish I could find that article... [/QUOTE]
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