Reply to "MLB three-batter minimum"

Chico Escuela5,000+ posts

Could be an opportunity for retired professional soccer players to get jobs as consultants to teach the fine art of faking injury.

It does seem to me that umps will be (and should be) reluctant to overrule a P who is claiming injury. Would you want to be the guy who forced a kid with a sore arm to stay on the mound, only to find a few days later that he needed surgery?

Will be interesting to see how far teams are willing to push things. Why not tell your former one-out lefty specialist: “if your arm isn’t feeling 100%, then better safe than sorry—no point in risking getting hurt.” On the other hand, if you require guys to sit out a while after claiming injury, then you are encouraging them to pitch through pain in a sport that already has an epidemic of arm problems.

2/13/207:26 AM

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